Appraisal of fracture sampling methods and a new workflow to characterise heterogeneous fracturing at outcrop

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Open Access funded by Natural Environment Research Council Under a Creative Commons license Acknowledgements The research presented here is part of a NERC CASE studentship (NERC code NE/I018166/1), in partnership with Midland Valley Exploration. The authors would like to thank Midland Valley Exploration for the use of their Move software (www.mve.com) for field mapping, cross section construction, and fracture orientation data plotting. Bill Dunne, John Hooker, and an anonymous reviewer are also thanked for constructive comments.