A template for calculating rock surface roughness

✍ Scribed by McCarroll, Danny

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 10 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-1269
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9837(199724)22:13<1229::aid-esp837>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

This software (which accompanies McCarroll and Nesje, 1996, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Vol. 21, 963-977) is designed to quantify the roughness of rock surfaces from profiles recorded using either a micro-roughness meter or a simple profile gauge. The roughness index used is the standard deviation of the differences between adjacent height values recorded at set horizontal intervals. Profiles are assumed to be 19 cm long with heights recorded every 5 mm. The template provided assumes that four profiles are recorded from each of ten surfaces (e.g. boulders). Roughness values are calculated using (overlapping) measurement intervals of 5 mm, 10 mm, 15 mm, 20 mm, 25 mm and 30 mm. The results are tabulated and presented as 'deviograms' which display both the magnitude and scale of roughness. The spreadsheet used was Quattro-pro for Windows, version 1.00.