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The borehole slotting method previously proposed by Gordon and Reyment for two boreholes may be extended to three or more boreholes, but soon becomes computationally intractable. We propose another method based on the mixture model of cluster analysis, the computational labor of which increases linearly with the number of boreholes. This method produces profiles of the unknown strata to which the individual boreholes are easily matched by the two-borehole slotting method.
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Hawkins, D.M. A method for stratigraphic correlation of several boreholes. Mathematical Geology 16, 393–406 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01029888
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