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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Geology and landscape evolution
    sub title: general principles applied to the United States
  name:
    name part: DiPietro, Joseph A.
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: S.l.]
    publisher: Elsevier
    date issued: 2024
    edition: 3rd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Geology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States, Third Edition is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and applications within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States.
  table of contents: Front Cover -- Geology and Landscape Evolution -- Geology and Landscape Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 -- Introduction to Landscape Evolution -- HOW SLOW IS SLOW? -- ELEVATION AND RELIEF -- MAPS, CROSS-SECTIONS, AND SCALE -- GEOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, AND TECTONICS -- COMPONENTS, FORCING AGENTS, AND MECHANISMS -- Introduction -- Tekton, The Carpenter, The Builder -- Climate, The Sculptor -- Isostasy, The Equalizer -- Sea Level, The Baseline -- THE OPPOSING FORCING AGENTS -- RECOGNIZING LANDSCAPE CHANGE -- QUESTIONS -- I -- Components, Forcing Agents, and Mechanisms
  table of contents: 2 -- Component: Rock/Sediment Type -- WEATHERING AND EROSION -- THE FOUR ROCK/SEDIMENT TYPES -- Introduction -- Sedimentary Rock -- Crystalline Rock -- Volcanic Rock -- Unconsolidated Sediment -- TOTAL SILICA CONTENT OF IGNEOUS ROCKS -- THE ROCK CYCLE -- ROCK HARDNESS AND DIFFERENTIAL EROSION -- LANDSCAPE IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS -- Introduction -- Karst Landscape in Limestone -- LANDSCAPE IN CRYSTALLINE ROCKS -- LANDSCAPE IN VOLCANIC ROCKS -- LANDSCAPE IN UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT -- QUESTIONS -- 3 -- Component: Structural Form -- STRESS AND DEFORMATION -- STRIKE AND DIP
  table of contents: THE EIGHT LANDSCAPE-FORMING STRUCTURAL FORMS -- Introduction -- Folds -- Anticlinal -- Nearly Flat-Lying -- Monocline -- Fractures -- Vertical Joint Set -- Normal Faults -- Reverse Faults -- Thrust Faults -- Strike-Slip Faults -- TOPOGRAPHIC FORM IN RELATION TO STRUCTURAL FORM -- INFLUENCE OF DIP ON LANDSCAPE -- TIMING OF FAULTING -- FAULT REACTIVATION -- QUESTIONS -- 4 -- Forcing Agent: The Tectonic System -- THE TECTONIC PLATE -- PLATE BOUNDARIES -- MOVEMENT OF TECTONIC PLATES -- CONTINENTAL MARGINS -- Introduction -- Rifting and Passive Continental Margins -- Active Continental Margins
  table of contents: TECTONIC ACCRETION AND SUTURE ZONES -- THERMAL PLUMES AND HOT SPOTS -- QUESTIONS -- 5 -- Forcing Agent: The Climate System -- PRESENT-DAY CLIMATE ZONES -- PROXIMITY TO LARGE WATER BODIES -- GLOBAL WIND PATTERNS -- THE TILT OF THE EARTH'S AXIS -- MOUNTAINS -- QUESTIONS -- 6 -- Forcing Agent: Isostasy -- TECTONIC VERSES ISOSTATIC UPLIFT -- ADDING AND REMOVING WEIGHT FROM THE EARTH'S SURFACE -- THERMAL CHANGES IN THE LITHOSPHERE -- CRUSTAL THICKENING -- ELEVATION OF CONTINENTS AND OCEAN BASINS -- QUESTIONS -- 7 -- Forcing Agent: Sea Level Change -- CAUSE OF EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL CHANGE
  table of contents: MEASURING PRESENT-DAY SEA LEVEL CHANGE -- MEASURING ANCIENT SEA LEVEL CHANGE -- MEASURING ANCIENT OCEAN AND AIR TEMPERATURE -- PALEOCLIMATE, GLACIATION, AND SEA LEVEL CHANGES -- INFLUENCE OF EARTH'S ORBITAL PARAMETERS ON GLACIATION -- VARIATION IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE CLIMATE -- RECENT HISTORY OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE -- QUESTIONS -- 8 -- Mechanisms That Impart Change to Landscape -- UPLIFT -- Introduction -- Measuring Present-Day Uplift Rates -- Measuring Ancient Uplift Rates and Elevation -- SUBSIDENCE -- EROSION -- Introduction -- Mountain Elevation and Erosion
  note: Joseph A. DiPietro.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Landscapes
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Landscape changes
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Landscape assessment
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Paysages
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Paysages
    topic: Modifications
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Paysages
    topic: Évaluation
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  classification: QH76
  classification: 917.304/932
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1405365807
  identifier: 9780443158957
  identifier: 0443158959
  identifier: 9780443158964
  identifier: 0443158967
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240606
    record change date: 20260327175930.9
    record identifier: in00005773310
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng