Table 2 Chronological calculations of fractal dimension (D) for various coastlines. “−”denotes no data available.
S. No. | Coastline | Divider dimension | Box-counting dimension | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | West Coast, Great Britain | 1.25 | − | Mandelbrot28 |
2 | Australia | 1.13 | − | Mandelbrot28 |
3 | Coastline of South Africa | 1.02 | − | Mandelbrot28 |
4 | Delware Bay, New Jersey | 1.46 | − | Philips (1986) |
5 | South Coast, Norway | − | 1.52 | Feder6 |
6 | East Shore, Gulf of California | 1.02 | − | Carr and Benzer2 |
7 | West Shore, Gulf of California | 1.03 | − | Carr and Benzer2 |
8 | Cres Island, Croatia | − | 1.118 | Paar et al.33 |
9 | China | 1.16 | − | Zhu et al.42 |
10 | China | 1.195 | − | Su et al.37 |
11 | Shangdong and Tianjin, China | − | 1.1383 | Xu et al.41 |
12 | Continental coastline of China | 1.2004 | 1.0929 | Ma et al.27 |
