Starter Guide
Basic Splicer Operations

All commands are executed with the left mouse button unless otherwise stated.
The “dismiss” button at the bottom of any dialog window will close the window.

To open data:
In the File menu choose:
Open
Data file (ctrl+O)

A dialog will appear (see figure 1)
-Use the “directories” section to navigate to the location of your data files

-In the “Files” box highlight the data files of one type (e.g. susceptibility) for as many Holes as you wish to compare.

-After choosing the files use the “->” to move them to the “selected” files window
(deselect with the “<-“ arrow)

-Using the “File Format” button choose the format which fits your data
**Hint** An incorrectly chosen file format, or wrongly formatted data will result in an error opening data, if you are unsure of the data format, “preview input” in the File menu to view the column and header format in your data files.

-Use the “Data type” button to select the type of data you are opening.
If it is a non-standard data type choose “other”, enter the column number where the data values are, and if there are headers click yes and enter the # of rows.

- click the “Open” button when you are ready to open the files.

Optional:
You may use the “Cull”, “Smooth” and “Decimate” buttons to (de)activate or change the parameters for these operations when opening data.

To apply a preexisting composite table (affine table) click on the “use affine” button, navigate to, and select the affine table you wish to apply.

For more detailed help click on “Help” at the bottom right of the dialog

Compositing

To build a common depth scale between holes (Meters Composite Depth scale MCD)
In the Process menu choose:
Composite

A “Composite” dialog appears (see figure 2) which allows you to assess the cross correlation in a defined window around the chosen tie points between the cores you are comparing, and then apply the chosen depth shift to the core(s).

To make a tie use the middle mouse button to select a point on the reference curve, and the right button to place a tie point on the floating (non-composited) curve. Holding either button down and moving up or down over the respective curve allows you to slide one core relative to the other while viewing the correlation in the “Composite” dialog window. To apply the tie point and adjust the core and all below it (unless you click on “this core only” in the “composite” window) click the ADJUST DEPTH button in the “Composite” window.

Note, by default Splicer adjusts the depth to create the best correlation between the compared cores, to override this you must click on “To tie” instead of “To best correlation” within the composite window before clicking adjust depth.

To remove the tie, or deselect the chosen cores, click the CLEAR TIE button.

**Hint** Always composite from the top down.

To save your Affine table (your table of composite tie points)
In the File menu:
Save
Affine table

To save your data files with MCD depths
In the File menu:
Save
Data file

Splicing

To create a continuous sediment section by "splicing" overlapping cores:
After opening the data files you wish to splice together in the process menu choose:
Splice
Constrained

A splicing dialog window appears (Figure 3) which allows you to select cores for the splice and shows the cross correlation between curves at potential tie points.

To select a core to add to the splice: In the main window click on the curve you want, go to the “Splicing Constrained” dialog window and click on the GRAB CORE button. The core will appear in the right hand panel of the main window (the Splice panel). To remove the core, click the CLEAR CORE button.

To choose a splice tie point to jump to another core: Select the core you wish to jump to, go to the splice panel of the main window (right column) and hold the middle mouse button down moving up and down over the splice curve to find a good tie point. Once you have decided on a tie point, release the middle mouse button and click the SPLICE TO TIE button in the “Splicing Constrained” dialog window.

To save your Splice table (your table of splice tie points)
In the File menu:
Save
Splice table

To save your spliced data files
In the File menu:
Save
Spliced data record