Title: DYNAMICS OF SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICAL PROCESSES OF GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES—FRACTAL GROWTH OF GEOSYSTEMS AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS
Abstract: The author analyzed systematically the present status of the four research areas of self\|organized criticality, transient chaos, the edge of chaos and weak chaos in the science of complexity and concluded that, the four research areas are actually different approaches for probing into the essence of the same problem—the spatio\|temporal evolution of open, far\|from\|equilibrium, interacting, large, dissipative dynamical systems in nature. The author further summarized the interrelationships among the four areas into an important proposition: the spatio\|temporal evolution of open, far\|from\|equilibrium, interacting, large, dissipative dynamical systems in nature complies to the \!dynamics of self\|organized critical processes\, and \!the systems grow fractally at the edge of chaos.Geosystems are both very important and complex open, far\|from\|equilibrium, interacting, large, dissipative dynamical systems in nature. they possess the innate, essential attribute of self\|organized criticality. Their spatio\|temporal behaviors obey the dynamics of self\|organized critical processes of geological processes. Geosystems are situated in the transitional spatio\|temporal domains between order and chaos, i.e., at the edge of chaos. They are in the weakly chaotic dynamic states, in which regular and chaotic motions coexist and mix up. And geosystems grow fractally at the edge of chaos.The author deduced and integrated these aspects into a theory of complexity in geosciences named \!Dynamics of self\|organized critical processes of geological processes—fractal growth of geosystems at the edge of chaos\, which is widely applicable to variable geosystems. The contents of this theory are divided into six parts, they are: (1) Self\|organized criticality, transient chaos, the edge of chaos and weak chaos; (2) The coupling and interactions as well as the coherence and cooperation of multicomponents;(3) The fractal dynamics of evolutionary processes;(4) The spatio\|temporal structures of processes;(5) The dynamics of fractal growth;(6) The theory of finite\|size scaling.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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