The staircase structure of the Southern Brazilian Continental Shelf

M S Baptista; L A Conti

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The staircase structure of the Southern Brazilian Continental Shelf

M S Baptista, L A Conti

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Abstract

We show some evidences that the Southeastern Brazilian Continental Shelf (SBCS) has a devil's staircase structure, with a sequence of scarps and terraces with widths that obey fractal formation rules. Since the formation of these features is linked with the sea-level variations, we say that the sea level changes in an organized pulsating way. Although the proposed approach was applied in a particular region of the Earth, it is suitable to be applied in an integrated way to other shelves around the world, since the analyses favor the revelation of the global sea-level variations. Copyright (C) 2009 M. S. Baptista and L. A. Conti.

Original language	English
Article number	624861
Number of pages	17
Journal	Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume	2009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/624861
Publication status	Published - 2009

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complete devils staircase
sea-level
circle maps
chaos
universality
topography
floor
ocean
circulation
dimensions

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