Title: Fractals in geophysics /
Authors: Scholz, C. H.; Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag,
Physical description: 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Introduction / C. H. Scholz and B. B. Mandelbrot -- Multifractal measures, especially for the geophysicist / B. B. Mandelbrot -- The fractal geometry of interfaces and the multifractal distribution of dissipation in fully turbulent flows / K. R. Sreenivasan ... [et al.] -- Fractal velocity models in refraction seismology / D. J. Crossley and O. G. Jensen -- Variations in geometric measures of topographic surfaces underlain by fractured granitic plutons / D. Norton and S. Sorenson -- Fractal sinuosity of stream channels / R. S. Snow -- The fractal geometry of flow paths in natural fractures in rock and the approach to percolation / D. D. Nolte, L. J. Pyrak-Nolte and N. G. W. Cook -- Testing linear models of sea-floor topography / A. Malinverno -- Fractal dimension of fault systems in Japan : fractal structure in rock fracture geometry at various scales / T. Hirata -- Fractals in geology and geophysics / D. L. Turcotte -- Fractal reconstruction of sea-floor topography / J.- C. Mareschal -- Empirically derived relationships between fractal dimension and power law form frequency spectra / C. G. Fox -- Are topographic data sets fractal? / L. E. Gilbert -- Fractals, fault-gouge and friction / C. G. Sammis and R. L. Biegel -- Scaling geology and seismic deconvolution / J. P. Todoeschuck and O. G. Jensen -- Fractured but not fractal : fragmentation of the Gulf of Suez basement / G. Korvin -- Fractal analysis of long-range paleoclimatic data : oxygen isotope record of Pacific core V28-239 / R. H. Fluegeman, Jr., and R. S. Snow.
Notes: "Reprint from Pure and applied geophysics (PAGEOPH), volume 131 (1989), no. 1"--Title page verso. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Fractals.; Geology--Mathematics.