Why Study Nonlinear Geoscience?

• How does chaos relate to the study of the Earth?
• Chaos and nonlinear systems
• Self-similarity, Power Laws and Fractals in Geoscience
• Generating artificial self-similar forms, or fractals
• Fractal Dimension
• So what exactly are fractals?
• Fractal Geometry
• Examples of Natural Power Laws and Fractal Sets
• More Examples of Natural Power Laws and Fractal Sets
• Why Fractal Geometry?
• Fractals and Chaos: the Lorenz Equations