Multi-figure Sedimentary Logs

This figure uses data from Southern Cyprus [1-3] to show the depositional history and incorporates customised lithological patterns, colours, and names. Three sedimentary logs are plotted in a single figure, with a shared legend and consistent formatting.

Multi-figure sedimentary logs

Code to reproduce this figure:

sp.update_features({
    'scaphopod': ('', 'trace fossil', 'Scaphopods'),
})
sp.update_lithologies( {
    'conglomerate': ('coarse gravel', '', 'Conglomerate'),
    'marl': ('flint clay', '', 'Marl'),
    'crossbedded limestone': ('crossbedded limestone', '', 'Crossbedded grainstone'),
    'aeolianite': ('crossbedded sandstone', '', 'Aeolianite'),
    'limestone': ('limestone', '', 'Grainstone'),
    'packstone': ('629', '', 'Packstone'),
})

# Create a list of files to plot
files = ['examples.Palamakumbura_2018.csv', 'examples.Balmer_2019.csv', 'examples.Antoniou_2025.csv']

# Use multi_fig to plot the three logs together
panel = sp.multi_fig(files, nrows=1, ncols=3, figsize=(20, 14), dpi=300, ppi=600, legend_loc='bottom', legend_columns=4, feature_size=.8, sharex=True)

Data used to generate this figure:

These files are built into stratapy, the code above will work without any need to download or specify file paths.

References

      1. Palamakumbura, A. H. F. Robertson. Pliocene-Pleistocene sedimentary-tectonic development of the Mesaoria (Mesarya) Basin in an incipient, diachronous collisional setting: facies evidence from the north of Cyprus. Geol. Mag. 155 5 997-1022 (2018) DOI.

      1. Balmer, A. H. F. Robertson, I. Raffi, D. Kroon. Pliocene-Pleistocene sedimentary development of the syntectonic Polis graben, NW Cyprus: evidence from facies analysis, nannofossil biochronology and strontium isotope dating. Geol. Mag. 156 5 889-917 (2019) DOI.

    1. Antoniou, A. H. F. Robertson. Middle-Late Pleistocene to Holocene sediments of the Tremithos River and related shallow-marine to non-marine coastal deposits in SE Cyprus: Products of inter-related surface uplift and glacio-eustatic controlled sea-level change. Sediment. Geol. 486 106900 (2025) DOI.