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The fingering phenomenon that occurs when a low-viscosity fluid displaces another with a higher viscosity1 has been extensively studied in the last few years from a fractal point of view. Excellent reviews of this phenomenon have been recently published2–4. Oil recovery is by far the most classical case of naturally occurring viscous fingering. I will discuss several features observed on an unplanned large scale “experiment” of viscous fingering and I will try to apply these new features to two natural cases for which a morphogenetical explanation linked to viscous fingering has been proposed.
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García-Ruiz, J.M. (1993). Natural Viscous Fingering. In: Garcia-Ruiz, J.M., Louis, E., Meakin, P., Sander, L.M. (eds) Growth Patterns in Physical Sciences and Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 304. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2852-4_20
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