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Spinel web: an interactive web application for visualizing the chemical composition of spinel group minerals

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The spinel group minerals provide useful information regarding the geological environment in which the host rocks were formed, constituting excellent petrogenetic indicators, and guides in the search for mineral deposits of economic interest. In this article, we present the Spinel Web, a web application to visualize the chemical composition of spinel group minerals. Spinel Web integrates most of the diagrams commonly used for analyzing the chemical characteristics of the spinel group minerals. It incorporates parallel coordinates and a 3D representation of the spinel prisms. It also provides coordinated views and appropriate interactions for users to interact with their datasets. Spinel Web also supports semi-automatic categorization of the geological environment of formation through a standard Web browser.

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Funding

This project is partially supported by PICT 1246-2017, ANPCyT, Argentina.

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  1. VyGLab Research Laboratory, DCIC, UNS, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering (CONICET-UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Antonella S. Antonini, María Luján Ganuza & Silvia M. Castro

  2. INGEOSUR, Departamento de Geología, UNS, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Gabriela Ferracutti, M. Florencia Gargiulo & Ernesto A. Bjerg

  3. VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria

    Kresimir Matković

  4. TUWien, Vienna, Austria

    Eduard Gröller

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  1. Antonella S. Antonini
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Correspondence to Antonella S. Antonini.

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Barnes and Roeder’s database (Barnes and Roeder 2001a) is available as supplementary data in the corresponding journal webpage (Barnes and Roeder 2001b).

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The application can be freely accessed at the website http://vyglab.cs.uns.edu.ar/apps from anybrowser. The code is not available at the moment.

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Antonini, A.S., Ganuza, M.L., Ferracutti, G. et al. Spinel web: an interactive web application for visualizing the chemical composition of spinel group minerals. Earth Sci Inform 14, 521–528 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-020-00542-w

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