EXPLOSION POINTS IN SKEW MAPS Anne Stefanie Costolanski, MS George Mason University, 2007 Thesis Director: Dr. Evelyn Sander This paper describes various chaotic behavior present in skew maps. Some aspects common in the study of dynamical systems are explored: the existence of homoclinic orbits, the behavior of manifolds, chaotic attractors, and period doubling cascades; and for each, the simil...