ABSTRACT

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 dim

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

The Poisson line segment model

chapter 4|20 pages

The population method

chapter 5|18 pages

Discrete mixture of ages

chapter 6|20 pages

Continuous mixtures of ages

chapter 9|18 pages

Further developments