“Science does not still perceive clearly that life phenomena and phenomena of inorganic nature considered from the geological, i.e., global, viewpoint are manifestations of a single process.”
V.I. Vernadskii
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Variations in the annual numbers of representative earthquakes in three areas and six districts of the Baikal rift zone in 1964–2002 were subjected to correlation analysis. Episodes of significant correlations of shock flow rates were found against the background of chaotic seismic activity. They followed the rearrangements (catastrophes) of stresses in the lithosphere, which are also stressing factors for the whole rift geodynamic system. The episode of the late 1970s-early 1980s was particularly long and showed the maximum correlation. Therefore, it can be considered the principal event in seismic process synchronization in the Baikal Rift Zone. The same approach to data analysis revealed similar synchronization and desynchronization phenomena in the behavior of Baikalian turbellaria when they deviated from homeostasis as a result of illumination, which is a stress for this biologic system. Possible reasons for the behavior of biologic and geodynamic systems are discussed in terms of the synergetic concept of phenomena in living and nonliving nature.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Kluchevsky, A.A. Kluchevskaya, 2010, published in Geofizicheskie protsessy i biosfera, 2009, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 26–45.
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Kluchevsky, A.V., Kluchevskaya, A.A. Stress-associated synchronization and desynchronization in geologic and biologic systems. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 46, 879–890 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143381007008X
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