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(a) TABLE 9.5 Normalized form of
Area Perimeter Modgeol_ Finalgeol
Table 9.4. Note the linkages
between tables and how a change
12,983 711 2 6 in lithology or age can be more
2648,177 8049 3 8 easily edited.
14,476 866 4 6
977,190 10,015 5 10
7062,567 27,324 6 8
69,818,680 231,598 7 5
16,556 598 8 9
11,447,985 51,973 9 6
415,067 5493 10 5
8805 566 11 6
6650 468 12 7
860,230 5309 13 6
9946 437 14 9
47,900 958 15 9
36,817 980 16 9
15,053 492 17 9
297,739 3253 18 6
39,071 972 19 9
156 86 20 10

(b)
Finalgeol Unit Lith# Age#
1 Dartmouth Group 1 1
2 Meadfoot Group 2 1
3 Acid volcanics 7 1
4 Staddon Formation 3 1
5 Mid Devonian slates 4 2
6 Basic volcanics 6 2
7 Mid Devonian limestone 5 2
8 Upper Devonian slates 4 3
9 Dolerite 8 3
10 Sea 0 0

(c) (d)
Lith# Lithology Age# Age
0 None 0 None
1 sandstone and shale 1 Lower Devonian
2 shale and sandstone 2 Middle Devonian
3 sandstone 3 Upper Devonian
4 Slate
5 limestone
6 basic volcanics
7 acid volcanics
8 Dolerite

Many proprietary technical software products dif, txt (tab delimited and fixed width formats),
provide such storage facilities, for example as well as numerous proprietary formats.
acQuire (acQuire 2004) provides such a solu- The strategy for collection and evaluation
tion for storage and reporting of data that also (checking) of data (Walters 1999) is often a mat-
interfaces with files in text formats such as csv, ter of company procedure. Most errors are gross