Donald l turcotte 1992 fractals and chaos in fractal geometry is useful to model many dis geology and geophysics cambridge university tributions in earth sciences because they are pro press 221 pp paperback price gbp1795 isbn duced by chaotic dynamical processes the sec 0 521 44767 4. Fractals and chaos in geology and geophysics second edition is the best technical introduction to chaos known to me all of the basic concepts of chaos theory are introduced and exquisitely explained in terms of a selection of examples most of which are taken from the earth sciences . Based on the authors research the book fractals and chaos in geology and geophysics is an excellent introduction for the solid earth geoscientiststhe first half of the book is devoted to fractals the author has chosen to introduce fractals through scale invariance because of the many examples in the earth sciences. Fractals and chaos in geology and geophysics second edition is the best technical introduction to chaos known to me it is suitable not only for geologists but for anyone who is seriously interested in the subject the title of the book is misleadingly narrow its content would be better described by the unwieldy title concepts and application