Physical Geology
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The key laboratory concepts of physical geology are presented in this text, which adopts a workbook format. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0136696988
ISBN13:9780136696988
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Prentice Hall
Length:484 Pages
Weight:3.05 lbs.
Grade Range:Grades 11 to 12
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"Hubbert's Pimple" but no Hurst's exponents
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
For me this is a very good reference text ( more current than my other books), but the publishing date and lack of update after Mandelbrot and Per Bak changed the way we looked at geology from drainage basin's to earthquake probability distributions. The physical model of Per Bak called the sand pile model changed everything as did Hurst's analysis of drainage dynamics and Mandelbrot's later connection of that to fractal theory. Today geology is like times series analysis: before and after Mandelbrot... The result is much like geology before and after crustal plate dynamics. Two revolutions in thought in one generation. When you think in geological time terms this is an "Hubbert's pimple" of knowledge?
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