Publication-ready geology plots in your browser
Stereonets, rose diagrams, ternary plots, hydrochemistry diagrams and soil-lab charts — straight from your spreadsheet, straight into your report. Paste a column, get a vector figure. No account, no upload, no install.
21 plot types, all live — 16 completely free, 5 Pro tools you can run in full on sample data before deciding.
Your data never leaves the browser
Every calculation runs in this tab. Nothing you plot is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and there is no account to create. The only server code on the site is the Stripe checkout for licences, and it never sees a number you have plotted. Client data under NDA is safe here in a way that it is not on a tool that posts your CSV to an API.
Publication-ready exports
Black ink on white paper, whatever theme you use the app in. Download true vector SVG for Illustrator and Inkscape, or PNG at 2× and 4× for a manuscript figure or a report appendix.
No signup, no install
Open a link, paste a column out of Excel, get a figure. No licence server, no VPN, no IT ticket, and it works the same on a laptop in the field as on a desktop.
The plots
Each one takes a table of numbers and gives back a figure you can put in front of a reviewer.
Structural geology
Composition & classification
Water chemistry
Piper Diagram
Classify water types from major-ion chemistry on the classic Piper trilinear plot.
Stiff Diagram
One polygon per sample — the fastest way to see a chemistry change along a flow path.
Schoeller Diagram
Semi-log multi-ion profiles that compare absolute concentrations across many samples at once.
Geotechnical
Grain Size Distribution
Turn sieve and hydrometer results into a semi-log particle-size distribution curve, with D10, D30, D60, Cu and Cc read off for you.
Plasticity Chart
Plot liquid limit against plasticity index on the Casagrande chart, with the A-line and U-line drawn and the USCS group symbol read off.
Borehole Log
Turn a table of depth intervals into a publication-ready borehole strip log with USCS hatch patterns, SPT N-values and a water table.
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Borehole Correlation
Draw several borehole logs side by side at true elevation and correlate the strata between them, with pinch-outs, a water table and the vertical exaggeration stated.
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CPT Profile
Turn a cone penetration test file into a publication-ready sounding profile — qc, fs, Rf and u2 tracks on one depth axis, with a Robertson (1986) soil behaviour type strip and an interpreted layer table.
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Rock & Tunnel
Kinematic Analysis
Screen a rock cut for planar sliding, wedge sliding and toppling on a stereonet, with the daylight envelope, friction cone, lateral limits and slip limit drawn and the critical measurements counted.
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Hoek-Brown Envelopes
Generate Generalized Hoek-Brown strength envelopes from σci, GSI, mi and D — with mb, s, a, the tensile cutoff, rock-mass strength, the equivalent Mohr-Coulomb c′ and φ′ and the rock-mass modulus worked out and cited.
GSI Chart
Plot your rock-mass descriptions on the Geological Strength Index chart — blockiness against surface condition, the diagonal GSI contours drawn, and a range rather than a false decimal for every scenario.
RMR Calculator
Work out Bieniawski (1989) RMR89 from the five published rating tables plus the orientation adjustment — with the rating breakdown drawn as a stacked bar against the class I–V bands, and the GSI and Q correlations printed and cited.
Q-System Calculator
Compute Barton’s Q from RQD, Jn, Jr, Ja, Jw and SRF, then read the support requirement straight off the NGI chart — Q against equivalent dimension, with the nine reinforcement categories drawn and your scenarios plotted on them.
Ground Reaction Curve
Draw the ground reaction curve, the support characteristic curve and the equilibrium between them for a circular tunnel — with the mobilised support pressure, factor of safety, plastic zone radius and tunnel strain read straight off the figure.
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Rock Strength Fitting
Fit the Hoek-Brown intact constants σci and mi to triaxial test data by Hoek’s published linear regression, with r², a Mohr-Coulomb c′ and φ′ over the tested range, the tension cutoff and every specimen’s residual.
Crack Thresholds
Pick crack closure, crack initiation, crack damage and peak stress off a uniaxial or triaxial stress–strain record by several published methods at once — with the crack volumetric strain, the lateral strain response, E and ν worked out and every method cited.
Nothing you paste here goes anywhere
StrataPlot is a static site. When you paste a table, the numbers are parsed by JavaScript already running on your machine, the figure is drawn as SVG in the page, and the export is generated by your browser. None of it has a path off this machine.
The one exception, stated plainly: buying a licence goes through Stripe, so there are two small server endpoints for checkout. They handle a plan name and a payment reference. No table, no figure and no file ever touches them — including while you are buying.
For a consultant working under a confidentiality agreement, or a researcher with unpublished data, that is not a nice-to-have. It is the difference between being allowed to use a tool and not.
- No account and no login — a licence is a key you hold, not a sign-up
- No file upload — the CSV reader is the browser’s own
- Works offline once the page has loaded, licence check included
- Exports are generated locally, never round-tripped through a server
Free to plot. Pay only to publish clean.
16 of the 21 tools are free end to end, and the other 5 run live on their sample data so you can see the finished thing before deciding. Free exports carry a small “made with strataplot.com” credit along the bottom edge. Saved projects and batch export are free during the beta; Pro removes the credit and takes your own data into the 5 Pro tools — $79 per year, or $149 once for a founding licence.