An investigation by staff members of University of Cape Town, South Africa; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Indiana Geological Survey, Bloomington; and U.S. Geological Survey.

From the reviews: "All in all, Graham Borradaile has written and interesting and idiosyncratic book on statistics for geoscientists that will be welcome among students, researchers, and practitioners dealing with orientation data. That should include engineering geologists who work with things like rock fracture orientation measurements or clast alignment in paleoseismic trenches. It won’t replace the collection of statistics and geostatistics texts in my library, but it will have a place among them and will likely be one of several references to which I turn when working with orientation data.... The text is easy to follow and illustrations are generally clear and easy to read..."(William C. Haneberg, Haneberg Geoscience)

The nature, distribution, and age of the rocks of the Idaho batholith and their comparison with the rocks of the southern California batholith, including remarks on the origin of granitic rocks.

Extensive discussions cover the distribution, sampling, inference, analysis of variances; transformations of univariate statistical methods; analyses of geological trends and multivariate data; ratios and variables of constant sum; exploration for natural resources; and evaluation of computers and geology. No previous knowledge of statistics necessary.

Prepared under the auspies of the Agency for International Development of the U.S. Dept. of State.