Abstract
An integrated system for ice-fabric analysis on a Rigsby stage is described. The system consists of a regular Rigsby stage fitted with two opto-electronic sensors for assessment of azimuth and the tilt angle of each individual grain. Signals from the sensors are transmitted to a computer terminal via an interface box, which facilitates transformation of Gray-coded data to ASCII data records. The terminal is hooked up to a main-frame computer (VAX 750), where the digitized angles of the c-axis orientations of individual thin sections are stored in separate data files. These files are compatible with other already existing files containing additional ice-core data and thus become part of an extensive data bank. Appropriate software has been developed to produce, among other things, plots of c-axis orientations in a Schmidt net.
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