List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Poisson line segment model; 3 Track counts and densites: fission track dating; 4 The population method; 5 Discrete mixture of ages; 6 Continuous mixtures of ages; 7 Probability distributions of lengths and angles; 8 Observational features of track measurements; 9 Further developments; Appendix Notes on Statistical methods; References; Index
Summary
The analysis of fission tracks found in minerals can yield geological information valuable for a range of applications (particularly in oil exploration). This work presents and explains a "line segment" model of fission track analysis that represents fission tracks mathematically by a stochastic process of randomly oriented line segments in three d
