List of Geological Application Software for Geology Students
Below a list of geological application software required for geology students. The list shows the most common applications used by students and their usage. There are many more special applications available and students are advised to check them for more information.
| Subject | Name | Use |
| Word Processing
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Microsoft Office Word | reports, assignment, thesis |
| Adobe Acrobat | PDF (free software) reading and printing document | |
| Endnote | Bibliography | |
| Presentation | PowerPoint | For report presentation |
| Graphics, Drawing and Publishing
|
MS Publisher | Desktop publishing |
| Freehand MX | diagram and figures for reports, assignment, thesis etc | |
| Grapher | A graphics software package to create high-quality 2D and 3D graphics for publication and presentation | |
| Image Processing
|
ImageJ | Image analysis aerial photos |
| ImageTool | Image analysis, thin sections | |
| Motic | Image analysis | |
| Data storage | Microsoft Access | General geological data management |
| Statistics | Microsoft Excel | For basic stats (Harker, bar, pie, column… ) |
| Minitab | Statistical modeling | |
| Statigraphics | A software package for statistical data analysis | |
| Geochemistry
|
MinPet | Most geochemistry plots, modeling |
| Petmin | Most geochemistry plots, modeling | |
| NewPet | Most geochemistry plots, modeling | |
| Igpet | Most geochemistry plots, modeling | |
| KaleidaGraph | Most geochemistry plots, SHRIMP data processing | |
| Grapher | 2D and 3D graphic | |
| Engineering | Matlab | Numerical modeling processing etc |
| Contouring | Surfer | Convert in a data into contour, surface, wireframe, vector, image, shaded relief, and post maps. Virtually all aspects of your maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want. |
| Mapping/GIS | Civil 3D (AutoCAD) | geological maps, engineering drawing… |
| ArcView | storing and manipulating data | |
| 3–D mapping | Stereo Mapper | stereo view of aerial photos |
| GPS | GPS Pathfinder | processing you GPS survey data |
| Geodimeter | Terramodel | processing your EDM survey |
| Stratigraphy | Strater | advanced plotting of downhole data |
| Rock science | Dip | plotting orientation based data |
| RocData | strength analysis of rock and soil | |
| RockSupport | estimating support in circular tunnels | |
| Examine2D | excavation analysis for mines | |
| Rockfall | rockfall calculations | |
| Slide | slope stability analysis | |
| Examine3D | 3-D elastic analysis for excavations | |
| Rocklab | Hoek-Brown failure | |
| Swedge | stability of wedges in rockslopes | |
| Phase | 2-D plastic finite element programme | |
| RockPlane | stability of planar sliing blocks | |
| Unwedge | stability of wedges in underground excavations | |
| Rockworks99 | Same as Rockscience (inferior) | |
| Colorado Rock Fall Simulation | Rockfall simulation | |
| Geoslope | Same as Rockscience (inferior) various tools | |
| Vulcan | 3D mining software solution that can validate and transform raw mining data into dynamic 3D models | |
| Vulcan | advance3D mining modeling | |
| Seismic Management
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StrataVisor | seismograph software |
| KingdomSuite | seismic data processing | |
| Voxler | advance 3D modelling | |
| Move 2009.1 | Structural modelling | |
| Socet Set/XPG | Photogrametry | |
| Mineral Exploration Management | Interdex | Mineral exploration software packages |
| other software | DAN | dynamic analysis of flow-like landslide |
| Galena | slope stability | |
| Win_EKKO_Pro | GPR | |
| Transform3-D | visualize image data |