--- title: "Example Stratigraphic Architecture" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Example Stratigraphic Architecture} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ## Introduction ```{r setup} library(StratPal) ``` ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) ``` This vignette provides an overview over the example stratigraphic architecture provided with the `StratPal` package. ## Stratigraphic Context The example data is taken from a synthetic carbonate platform simulated using CarboKitten.jl (Hidding et al. 2025). It emulates scenario A from Hohmann et al (2024), which was originally simulated in CarboCAT (Burgess 2013), and is characterized by a sinusoidal sea level curve and 2 long (\> 0.5 Myr) hiatuses over the 2 Myr duration of the run. ## Dataset structure The structure of the dataset is explained on the help pages, which is available using ```{r, eval=FALSE} ?scenarioA ``` ## Simulation settings The full code to generate simulation data and visualizations is available [here](https://github.com/MindTheGap-ERC/StratPal_data_prep). The simulation was run over 2 Myr at steps of 1 kyr, with data extracted at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 km from shore in the middle of the simulated platform. Three carbonate factories were used: euphotic, oligophotic, and aphotic: ```{r, echo=FALSE, fig.cap="Production profile of the three carbonate factories", out.width="70%"} knitr::include_graphics("platform_production_curve.png") ``` The eustatic sea level curve is a combination of third and fifth order changes with an amplitude of 20 and 2 m and a period of 1 and 0.112 Myr: ```{r, echo=FALSE, out.width="70%"} plot(x = scenarioA$t_myr, y = scenarioA$sl_m, xlab = "Time [Myr]", ylab = "Sea level [m]", main = "Eustatic Sea Level", type = "l") ``` For users interested in more details, we recommend inspecting the simulation source code (written in Julia). ## Platform visualization ```{r, echo=FALSE, out.width='100%', fig.cap="Transect through the carbonate platform. Black lines separate systems tracts."} knitr::include_graphics("platform_profile.png") ``` ```{r, echo=FALSE, out.width='100%', fig.cap="Wheeler diagram of the platform, showing both dominant facies and seidimentation rate."} knitr::include_graphics("platform_wheeler_diagram.png") ``` ## References - Hidding, Johan, Jarochowska, Emilia, Hohmann, Niklas, Liu, Xianyi Burgess, Peter and Spreeuw, Hanno: "CarboKitten.jl – an open source toolkit for carbonate stratigraphic modeling." Preprint. - Burgess, Peter. 2013. "CarboCAT: A cellular automata model of heterogeneous carbonate strata." Computers & Geosciences. . - Hohmann, Niklas; Koelewijn, Joël R.; Burgess, Peter; Jarochowska, Emilia. 2024. "Identification of the mode of evolution in incomplete carbonate successions." BMC Ecology and Evolution 24, 113. .