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X-ray images of sediment core allow recognition of fine-scaled sedimentary structures which traditional epoxy casts or lacquer peels are unable to resolve. The X-ray imaging system SCOPIX has the additional advantage of acquiring high-resolution digital pictures suitable for further analysis by advanced image processing techniques. Because of the frequent presence of both physical and biogenic sedimentary structures in undisturbed sediment cores, two image analysis procedures have been established which simplify the information contained in the images (in term of structures and facies), and allow a quantitative characterization of the observed structures. This form of parametrization of the image structure constitutes an additional source of information for a better interpretation of the physical processes responsible for the generation of the sedimentary structures.
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Lofi, .J., Weber, .O. SCOPIX – digital processing of X-ray images for the enhancement of sedimentary structures in undisturbed core slabs. Geo-Mar Lett 20, 182–186 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670000051
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670000051