Scaling and Critical Phenomena In Nature

Abstract

Self-organized criticality in earth systems reviews recent research that applies a variety of statistical and statistical mechanical techniques to current problems of interest in the earth sciences. The topics it covers are similar in many respects to Donald L. Turcotte's now-classic work fractals and chaos in geology and geophysics (first published by Cambridge university press, 1992), and more recently updated (Cambridge university press, 1997).