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As announced in the Prologue it was shown in several chapters how and when monotonous and cyclic attractors (which were called SOM states, state limits and state cycles) can serve to capture the nature of soils. A comparable outline of methods for critical phenomena, i.e. pattern formation and deterministic chaos, cannot be offered. This last chapter is to convey what is meant without a unified concept, so my book has an open end and not a finale like a symphony.
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Gudehus, G. (2011). Critical phenomena. In: Physical Soil Mechanics. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36354-5_16
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