Table of Contents

Table of Contents

| TOC| Program Guide | Geological Modelling | Geological Visualisations | Geophysical Modelling |Geophysical Visualisations | Tools | File Formats | Tutorials | Index | Bugs |

1 Introduction

2 Noddy Program Guide

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Program Flow

2.3 Getting Started

2.4 Editing Deformation Events in the History Window

3 Geological Modelling

3.1 Base Stratigraphy Event

3.2 Folding Event

3.3 Faulting Event

3.4 Unconformity Event

3.5 Shear Zone Formation Event

3.6 Dyke Intrusion Event

3.7 Plug Intrusion Event

3.8 Straining Event

3.9 Tilting Event

3.10 Foliation Formation Event

3.11 Lineation Formation Event

3.12 Import Block Model Event

3.13 Stop Sign

3.14 Parameter Groups

3.15 Previews in Event Definition Windows

3.16 Profile Windows

3.17 Alteration Zone Definition

3.18 Rock Property Definition

3.19 Colour Definition

4 Geological Visualisations

4.1 Block Diagrams

4.2 Maps

4.3 Topographic Maps

4.4 Sections

4.5 Boreholes

4.6 3D Topography

4.7 3D Triangulation

4.8 Stereographic Projections

4.9 Kinematic Animations

4.10 Stratigraphic Columns

4.11 Legend Window

4.12 Block Options

4.13 Geology Display Options

4.14 Section/Borehole Options

4.15 Movie Options

4.16 Volume/Surface Options

4.17 Block Diagram Default Options

4.18 Window Options

4.19 Project Options

5 Geophysical Modelling

5.1 Anomaly Maps

5.2 Borehole Surveys

5.3 Generated Flight Line Surveys

5.4 Imported Flight Line Surveys

5.5 Vertical Derivatives

5.6 Reference Data sets

5.7 Geophysics Calculation Options

5.8 Geophysics Survey Options

6 Geophysical Visualisations

6.1 Geophysical Images and Profiles

6.2 Difference Images

6.3 Down hole geophysics

6.4 Geophysics Display Options

6.5 Geophysics Plot Options

7.1 Importing DXF Triangulations

7.2 Importing Vulcan Regularised Block Models

7.3 Importing Potential-field Images

7.4 Exporting Voxel Models in the Noddy Block Format

7.5 Exporting Voxel Models in a Raw Format

7.6 Exporting Voxel Models in a Tabulated Column Format

7.7 Exporting Potential-field and Vector Data in ERMapper Formats

7.8 Exporting Potential-field in GEOSOFT Format

7.9 Editing the Rock Properties Database

8 File Formats

8.1 History File

8.2 Topography File

8.3 Orientation Data File

8.4 Geophysics Output File

8.5 Profile Line data File

8.6 Block Model File

8.7 DXF Triangulation Files

8.8 Vulcan Triangulation File

8.9 Rock Properties File

9 Printing and Saving Images in Windows

10 Overview of Menus

11 Overview of Calculations

11.1 Spectral Potential-field Calculations

11.2 Spatial Potential-field Calculations

11.3 Test of spatial and spectral Noddy solutions

11.4 Geological Calculations

12 Installing Noddy from CDROM

13 On-line Help

14 Tutorials

14.1 Plunging Folds

14.2 Irregular Unconformities

14.3 Alteration Zones

14.4 Remanent Dykes

14.5 Importing and Exporting Data

14.6 Exploration Simulation

14.7 Importing Flight Line Specifications

14.8 Digitising Fold Profiles

14.9 Using Real Geophysical Data

14.10 Selecting the Right Calculation Scheme

14.11 Legends and Grids

16 Bug Reporting Form