FRACTAL ANALYSIS APPLIED TO RIVER PLANFOR MS - METHOD OF RICHARDSON

Fractal analysis was applied to river planforms in order to define the ir scaling properties. The fractal dimension of river paths was estima ted using the Richardson method, and compared to different factors inf luencing the river geometry, such as the parent rock and soil types, t he bed slope of rivers, and hydrologic and tectonic factors. We propos e a model that accounts for two distinct power law patterns observed i n two scale domains.