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28 May 2025
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Status: this preprint is open for discussion and under review for Geoscience Communication (GC).

GC Insights: "Sedimentary Rock!" – A web app that converts geological strata data into music

Toshiyuki Kitazawa, Kazuaki Aoki, Hiroaki Yasutomo, and Takuma Kato

Abstract. A web app called "Sedimentary Rock!" has been developed to reveal geological strata to human hearing and rhythmic senses, similar to music, in a straightforward way. A columnar section created on the app is converted to notes and played. The thickness of a layer is converted to the length of a note, and the grain size is converted to pitch level. Sedimentary Rock! makes learners understand that the strata consist of concepts of grain size and thickness of stratum and provides a new intuitive experience to listen to geological history.

How to cite. Kitazawa, T., Aoki, K., Yasutomo, H., and Kato, T.: GC Insights: "Sedimentary Rock!" – A web app that converts geological strata data into music, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1978, 2025.
Received: 26 Apr 2025 – Discussion started: 28 May 2025
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SedimentaryRock Hiroaki Yasutomo et al. https://github.com/kazu404/SedimentaryRock.git

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Sedimentary Rock! GEOLOGY into MUSIC Toshiyuki Kitazawa http://www.youtube.com/@SedimentaryRock-e7r

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Sedimentary Rock! is a new tool that converts columnar sections into human hearing and rhythmic senses. It is easy to use, and educators can make learners understand that the strata consist of concepts of grain size and thickness of the stratum by working to make a columnar section. Furthermore, the learners understand that the stacks of strata represent the geological history, and the changes in grain size and thickness indicate the environmental changes in hearing and rhythmic senses.
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