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The Holocene, Vol. 16, No. 5, 753-761 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl969rr

The WinGeol Lamination Tool: new software for rapid, semi-automated analysis of laminated climate archives

Michael C. Meyer

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria, michael.meyer{at}uibk.ac.at

Robert Faber

TerraMath, Heiligenstädterstraße 107, 1190 Vienna, Austria

Christoph Spötl

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Geological and biological archives showing an annually laminated internal structure are currently top priority in palaeoclimate research, as they are recognized as very high-resolution archives of environmental change. Also, the annual origin of laminations can be validated by absolute age dating or by using instrumental data for the most recent period. Microscopic laminae may span several hundreds to thousands of years and frequently reveal a high degree of internal growth variability. Quantitative examination of laminations using transmitted-light or epifluorescence microscopy is thus a tedious task and may be partly automated. We developed a software (WinGeol Lamination Tool) using C + + capable of semi-automatically detecting and measuring individual lamina thicknesses in archives showing large internal growth variability. The Lamination Tool enables the operator to efficiently and quantitatively examine laminae down to the micron scale and it was successfully tested on a variety of annually banded samples.

Key Words: Digital image analysis • algorithm • RGB curve • software • annual lamination • thin section • WinGeol Lamination Tool


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