Objective fitting of ellipses in the centre-to-centre (Fry) method of strain analysis

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1430-1444

  Waldron, John W F ^a   Wallace, K D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centre to centre; Fabric analysis; Fry method; Strain ellipse

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FUNCTION METHOD; FABRIC ELLIPSES; FRY METHOD;

CURVE FITTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRAIN;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ELLIPSE; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548515490     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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