Statistics and geometry of the eigenspectra of three-dimensional second-rank symmetric random tensors

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 744-756

  Xu, Peiliang ^a   Grafarend, Erik ^b  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN; STRESS;

EID: 0030440363     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04053.x     Document Type: Article

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