Fractals in geology and geophysics

Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 1989, Pages 171-196

  Turcotte, Donald L ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractals; scale invariance; self similarity

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL; SCALE INVARIANCE; SELF SIMILARITY;

EID: 0024568081     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00874486     Document Type: Article

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4. Transport Processes in Fractals. IV. Nonlinear Flow Problems in Fractal Capillary Networks
5. A probabilistic synthesis of precursory phenomena
6. Estimating the Seismicity From Geological Structure for Seismic-risk Studies
7. Fractal Analysis Applied to Characteristic Segments of the San Andreas Fault
8. A Spherical Harmonic Analysis of the Earth's Topography
9. Statistical Features of Sea-floor Topography
10. Broken Coal
11. Statistical Properties of Sea-floor Roughness
12. Momentum Transport by Gravity Waves
13. Broad Bandwidth Study of the Topography of Natural Rock Surfaces
14. Fractal Dimensions of Landscapes and Other Environmental Data
15. The Application of Fractal Ideas to Geophysical Phenomena
16. Resources Estimation from Historical Data: Mercury, a Test Case
17. Estimating Usable Resources from Historical Industry Data
18. On the Robust Estimation of Power Spectra, Coherences, and Transfer Functions
19. Coupling of Internal and Surface Waves in Water of Variable Depth
20. Fractal Dimensions and Geometrics of Caves
21. Mechanisms and models of cratering in earth media
22. Fractal Patterns from Chemical Dissolution
23. The Distribution of Asteroid Diameters
24. The Dimension of Strange Attractors
25. Quantitative Methods for Analyzing the Roughness of the Seafloor
26. Destruction of Basaltic Bodies by High-velocity Impact
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52. Determination of Maximum Earthquake Magnitude
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55. A Fractal Model for Crustal Deformation
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