V.P. Dimri, Scientist of the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.

• Preface, 1. An Introduction to Fractals and their Applications in Earth Science 2. Fractals 3. The Fractal Redux 4. The Percolating Fractals 5. Concepts Similar to Self-similarity in Science 6. Multifractals 7. Processing (Multi)Fractal Data Strings 8. Fractals and Geology 9. Crustal Fractal Magnetisation 10. Fractality of Seismic Wave Signature-A Mandelbrot Approach 11. Can Travel-time Curve Tunnel through Chaotic Regime 12. Application of Fractals in Seismology with Reference to Koyna Earthquakes 13. Chaotic Dynamics and Earthquakes 14. Multifractal Analysis of Earthquakes: An Overview 15. Application of Fractals in the Study of Rock Fracture and Rock burst-associated Seismicity 16. Fractal Dimension Analysis of Soil for Flow Studies 17. Detecting Chaos from Geophysical Time Series 18. Application of Catastrophe Theory to Some Non-linear Geophysical Problems 19. Application of Fractal Dimension in Studying Geomorphic Processes-A Case-study from Historical Climate Data Set Dhananjay A. Sant. Subject Index.