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If the height of a bed Is known at three or more points (not in a straight line), it is possible to find the direction of strike and to calculate the dip of the bed, provided dip is uniform. This principle has many applications to mining, opencast and borehole problems encountered by applied geologists and engineers but this chapter deals only with the fundamental principle and includes a few simple problem maps.
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Bennison, G.M. (1990). ‘Three-point’ problems. In: An Introduction to Geological Structures and Maps. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9630-1_2
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