TY - BOOK ID - 209040 TI - Fractal Behaviour of the Earth System PY - 2005 SN - 1280346949 9786610346943 3540265368 3540265325 3642065856 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Fractals. KW - Earth sciences KW - Geology KW - Mathematics. KW - Geomathematics KW - Mathematical geology KW - Geosciences KW - Environmental sciences KW - Physical sciences KW - Fractal geometry KW - Fractal sets KW - Geometry, Fractal KW - Sets, Fractal KW - Sets of fractional dimension KW - Dimension theory (Topology) KW - Physical geography. KW - Geography. KW - Geology. KW - Statistical physics. KW - Geophysics/Geodesy. KW - Earth Sciences, general. KW - Complex Systems. KW - Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. KW - Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. KW - Physics KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Geognosy KW - Geoscience KW - Natural history KW - Cosmography KW - World history KW - Geography KW - Statistical methods KW - Geophysics. KW - Earth sciences. KW - Dynamical systems. KW - Physics. KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Dynamics KW - Dynamical systems KW - Kinetics KW - Mathematics KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Force and energy KW - Mechanics KW - Statics KW - Geological physics KW - Terrestrial physics KW - Earth (Planet) KW - Crust. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:209040 AB - It is with pleasure that I write the foreword to this excellent book. A wide range of observations in geology and solid-earth geophysics can be - plained in terms of fractal distributions. In this volume a collection of - pers considers the fractal behavior of the Earth's continental crust. The book begins with an excellent introductory chapter by the editor Dr. V.P. Dimri. Surface gravity anomalies are known to exhibit power-law spectral behavior under a wide range of conditions and scales. This is self-affine fractal behavior. Explanations of this behavior remain controversial. In chapter 2 V.P. Dimri and R.P. Srivastava model this behavior using Voronoi tessellations. Another approach to understanding the structure of the continental crust is to use electromagnetic induction experiments. Again the results often exhibit power law spectral behavior. In chapter 3 K. Bahr uses a fractal based random resister network model to explain the observations. Other examples of power-law spectral observations come from a wide range of well logs using various logging tools. In chapter 4 M. Fedi, D. Fiore, and M. La Manna utilize multifractal models to explain the behavior of well logs from the main KTB borehole in Germany. In chapter 5 V.V. Surkov and H. Tanaka model the electrokinetic currents that may be as- ciated with seismic electric signals using a fractal porous media. In chapter 6 M. Pervukhina, Y. Kuwahara, and H. Ito use fractal n- works to correlate the elastic and electrical properties of porous media. ER -