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Donald L. Turcotte
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 351
Citations - 28571
Donald L. Turcotte is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mantle (geology) & Lithosphere. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 348 publications receiving 26795 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald L. Turcotte include University of California & University of Minnesota.
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Geodynamics applications of continuum physics to geological problems
TL;DR: A comprehensive and quantitative study of the fundamental aspects of plate tectonics is presented in this paper, with an introduction to heat flow, elasticity and flexure, fluid mechanics, faulting, gravity, and flow in porous media.
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Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics
TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental concepts of fractal geometry and chaotic dynamics are introduced and related to a variety of geological and geophysical problems, illustrating just what chaos theory and fractals really tell us and how they can be applied to the earth sciences.
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Self-organized criticality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced the concept of self-organized criticality to explain the behavior of the sandpile model, where particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes and when a box accumulates four particles they are redistributed to the four adjacent boxes or lost off the edge of the grid.
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Landslide inventories and their statistical properties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined three well-documented landslide events, from Italy, Guatemala and the USA, each with a different triggering mechanism, and found that the landslide areas for all three are well approximated by the same three-parameter inverse-gamma distribution.
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Fractals and fragmentation
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of renormalization group techniques on fragmentation problems is examined and the equations which represent fractals and the size-frequency distributions of fragments are presented, and it is concluded that fragmentation is a scale invariant process and that fractal dimension is a measure of the fragility of the fragmented material.