Landscape evolution in the United States : an introduction to the geography, geology, and natural history /
Landscape evolution refers to the changing terrain of any given area of the Earth's crust over time. Common causes of evolution (or geomorphology-land morphing into a different size or shape over time) are glacial erosion and deposition, volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, sediment tra...
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Burlington, MA :
Elsevier,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The tortoise and the hare
- Component: The rock/sediment type
- Component: The structural form
- Mechanisms that impart change to landscapes
- Forcing variable: The tectonic system
- Forcing variable: The climatic system
- Forcing variables: Sea level and isostasy
- Interaction of tectonics, climate, and time
- Unconsolidated sediment
- Nearly flat-lying sedimentary layers
- Crystalline-cored mid-continent anticlines and domes
- Foreland fold-and-thrust belts
- Crystalline deformation belts
- Yound volcanic rocks of the cordillera
- Normal fault-dominated landscapes
- Cascadia volcanic arc system
- Californiaa transpressional system
- The story of the Grand Canyon
- Early theories on the origin of mountain belts
- Keys to the interpretation of geological history
- Tectonic style, rock successions, and tectonic provinces
- Formation, collapse, and erosonal decay of mountain systems
- The Appalachian orogenic belt: An example of compressional mountain building
- The cordilleran orogenic belt.