Kansas Geological Survey
Help on: Rock Catalog Web Page

The Rock Catalog Web Application was designed to help the user locate Kansas Geological Survey's (KGS) Core Data and Image Files, as well as Digital LAS Files, to organize the data in such a way as to create a rock catalog web page on their PC with that data. The user's rock catalog comprises measured core data cross plots, i.e. Porosity vs. Permeability measurements, Core Image Pages and LAS File Plots. The data is organized at two levels,
  1. By Data Constraints: The data is restricted by the data type, i.e. by county, by depositional environment type, etc. The application searchs for wells with core data that matches the constraint the user enters.
  2. By Well Constraints: The data is restricted by the well and any constraints the user selects. Only the data the well has will be displayed.
The user gives permission to the application to download the data to their PC as well as allowing the web applet access to multiple servers at KGS to download the core data to the user's pc.

Rock Catalog Web Page Control Panel

There are three sections to this panel,

  1. Rock Catalog Title & Description Section. This section allows the user to create a title and to add a description to their rock catalog. If the user makes no changes to these fields they will be ignored when the rock catalog is created. When the user creates the rock catalog web page the title and description text data are put in a XML File titled "WebPage.xml" under a unique directory name "RCYYMMDD-HHMMSS??" where
    • RC - Represents Rock Catalog Web Page Directory.
    • YY - Year the Rock Catalog was created.
    • MM - Number equivalent of the Month the Rock Catalog was created.
    • DD - The Day the Rock Catalog was created.
    • HH - The Hour the Rock Catalog was created.
    • MM - The Minute the Rock Catalog was create.
    • SS - The Second the Rock Catalog was create.
    • ?? - AM if create in the morning and PM if created in the afternoon or evening.
  2. Rock Catalog User Created Files Section. This section displays the list of images that have been downloaded or saved to the user's pc. The core data cross plots are generated images from the plot and saved as "PNG" Files. The core image files are downloaded with a web page containing any measured core data for the depth of that image. The core images are copied "JPG" Files from the KGS File System. The image file information is saved in the XML File "WebPageFiles.xml" under the same directory as the Title and Description XML File.
  3. Rock Catalog Web Page Buttons. This section allows the user to Open existing Rock Catalog Pages to modify the contents, to Build and Display a Rock Catalog and to find and create images for the rock catalog.
Rock Catalog User Created Files Buttons.
This button allows the user to view the saved image on their PC. The User highlights the image in the List of Images and selects the "Show Item" Button to display the image.
This button allows the user to remove a saved image from their Rock Catalog. The User highlights the image in the List of Images and selects the "Remove Item" Button to remove the item from the list.
This button allows the user to modify the Title & Description for the Core Data Cross Plot. The user also can change the order of appearance of Cross Plot and Core Image items to "By Constraint" or "By Well". "By Constraint" Items are displayed befor the "By Well" Items.

Select the button to the left to view help for this button.
Rock Catalog Web Page Buttons.
This button allows the user to clear the present Rock Catalog Displayed so the user can create a new Rock Catalog.
This button allows the user to open a previously created Rock Catalog to make changes to the content of the Rock Catalog. When the user selects this button they will be asked to open the directory holding the Rock Catalog Web Page.

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This button builds the Rock Catalog Web Page from the data that appears in this dialog and then displays it.

Select Button to the left to view help on the Build Rock Catalog Button.
This button will display the KGS Rock Catalog Query Dialog. This dialog will assist the user in building a constraint list that will allow the user to view the kind of core data of interest. This dialog also has entry points to build core data cross plots, display LAS plots over the region of the core data and to view core image web pages. The user can save any of these images to their PC, which become part of the user's Rock Catalog Web Page.

Select Button to the left to view help on the Rock Catalog Query Dialog.