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Reproducing the Piper trilinear diagram in rectangular coordinates
Ranjan Kumar Ray1, Rumi Mukherjee
1Central Ground Water Board, Ministry Of Water Resources, Government of India, 2nd floor, Reena Apartment, Pachpedi Naka, Dhamtari Rd., Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 492001. ranjan.ray@lycos.com
Abstract:
Though several alternatives/modifications to the Piper diagram are available, the Piper diagram is still the most common way of representing chemical analyses. The present note shows how to reproduce the Piper trilinear diagram in rectangular coordinates retaining all the essential features of the trilinear diagram. In this form, it can be generated using commonly used graphics packages without requiring specialized software. A sample data set of six samples from Gurur watershed, Chhattisgarh, India, was used to illustrate the method. The patterns of points produced in the trilinear Piper diagram and the reproduced Piper diagram in rectangular coordinates are essentially identical.
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