Fractals in the Earth Sciences

By: Barton, Christopher Cramer Barton, C. C. Barton (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 February 1995

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Fractals have changed the way we understand and study nature. This change has been brought about mainly by the work of B. B. Mandelbrot and his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Now here is a book that collects articles treating fractals in the earth sciences. The themes chosen span, as is appropriate for a discourse on fractals, many orders of magnitude; including earthquakes, ocean floor topography, fractures, faults, mineral crystallinity, gold and silver deposition. There are also chapters on dynamical processes that are fractal, such as rivers, earthquakes, and a paper on self-organized criticality. Many of the chapters discuss how to estimate fractal dimensions, Hurst exponents, and other scaling exponents. This book, in a way, represents a snapshot of a field in which fractals has brought inspiration and a fresh look at familiar subjects. New ideas and attempts to quantify the world we see around us are found throughout. Many of these ideas will grow and inspire further work, others will be superseded by new observations and insights, most probably with future contributions by the authors of these chapters.

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Fractal Distributions in Geology, Scale Invariance, and Deterministic Chaos
Some Long-Run Properties of Geophysical Records
Some Remarks on the Numerical Estimation of Fractal Dimension
Measuring the Dimension of Self-Affine Fractals: Example of Rough Surfaces
Review of the Fractal Character of Natural Fault Surfaces with Implications for Friction and the Evolution of Fault Zones
Fractals and Ocean Floor Topography: A Review and a Model
Fractal Transitions on Geological Surfaces
Fractal Analysis of Scaling and Spatial Clustering of Fractures
Fractal Fragmentation in Crustal Shear Zones
Fractal Distribution of Fault Length and Offsets: Implications of Brittle Deformation Evaluation - The Lorraine Coal Basin
Fractal Dynamics of Earthquakes
Mineral Crystallinity in Igneous Rocks: Fractal Method
Fractal Structure of Electrum Dendrites in Bonanza Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits
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