Download or read book Statistics for Fission Track Analysis written by Rex F. Galbraith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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