1st Edition

Statistics for Fission Track Analysis

By Rex F. Galbraith Copyright 2005
240 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

240 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

240 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Statistical analyses of the numbers, lengths, and orientations of fission tracks etched in minerals yield dating and thermal history information valuable in geological and geoscience applications, particularly in oil exploration. Fission tracks can be represented mathematically by a stochastic process of randomly oriented line segments in three dimensions, and this "line segment" model can... Read more
Introduction. The Poisson Line Segment Model. Track Counts and Densities: Fission Track Dating. The Population Method. Discrete Mixtures of Ages. Continuous Mixtures of Ages. Probability Distributions of Lengths and Angles. Observational Features of Track Measurements. Further Developments. Appendix.

Biography

Galbraith, Rex F.