Geomorphology and global tectonics /

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Autor principal:	Summerfield, Michael A.
Otros Autores:	Mayer, Larry, Beaumont, Christopher, Kooi, Henk, Willett, Sean D., Gleadow, Andrew J. W., Brown, Roderick W., Hovius, Niels, Tippett, J. Mark, Lin, Jiun-Chuan, Ohmori, Hiroo, Kennan, Lorcan, Fielding, Eric J., Bishop, Paul, Goldrick, Geoff, Gallagher, Kerry, Pazzaglia, Frank J., Gardner, Thomas W., Kerr, David E., Sugden, David E., Gunnell, Yanni, Fleitout, L., Watts, A B.
Formato:	Desconocido
Lenguaje:	Español
Publicado:	New York: Wiley, 2001.
Edición:	repr.
Materias:	Geología Geomorfología Tectónica global
Aporte de:	Registro referencial: Solicitar el recurso aquí Sistema de Bibliotecas UNRN de Universidad Nacional de Río Negro

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Part I Introduction
1. Geomophology and global tectonics: introduction / Michael A. Summerfield
1.1 Aim and context
1.2 Early ideas
1.3 Davisian dogma
1.4 Erosion surfaces, denudation chronology and tectonics
1.5 Current issues
1.6 Plan of the book
Part II General models and empirical approaches
2. Application of digital elevation models to macroscale tectonic geomorphology / Larry Mayer
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Digital elevation models
2.3 Topographic analysis and DEMs
2.4 Use of DEMs for tectonic studies
2.5 DEMs for macroscales tectonic geomorphology
2.5.1 Grand Canyon erosion
2.5.2 Volcanic eruptions: Mount St Helens
2.5.3 Interplate seismicity: New Madrid, Missouri, USA
2.5.4 Continental rifting: Baja California
2.6 Future Research directions
Apendix: Some sources of global elevation data
3. Coupled tectonic-surface process modes with applications to rifted margins and collisional orogens / Christopher Beaumont ; Henk kooi and Sean Willett
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Convergent plate boundaries
3.1.2 Divergent plate boundaries
3.1.3 Stating the problem
3.2 Surface process models and coupling tectonic models
3.3 Denudational response to kinematic tectonic forcing
3.3.2.1 Steady-state landscape
3.3.2.2 Linear resposnse and landscape response time
3.3.2.3 Slow, intermediate, rapid and impulsive tectonic forcing
3.3.2.4 Nonlinear behavoir
3.3.3 Comparison with other work
3.4 Post-Rift evolution of Rifted Margins
3.4.1 Escarpment evolution
3.4.2 Comparison with other work
3.5 Dynamically coupled models of tectonic and denudation in orogens
3.5.1 Evidence of coupling between tectonics and surface processes
3.5.2. Results from numerical models
3.5.3. Results from physical models
3.6. Future research directions
4. Fission-track thermochronology and the long-term denudational respose to tectonics / Andrew J. W. Gleadow and Roderick W. Brown
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Fission-Track thermochronology
4.2.1. Fission-track dating
4.2.2. Fission-track annealing and thermal history modelling
4.3. Interpretation of fission-track data
4.3.1. Cooling history styles
4.3.2. Discriminating cooling from thermal event styles
4.3.3. Vertical fission-track sampling profiles
4.3.4. Tectonic disruption of fission-track patterns
4.4. application to continental denudation
4.4.1. Deriving estimates of denudation
4.4.2. Estimating thermal gradients
4.4.3. Transient thermal events
4.4.4. Denudation in active orogenic belts
4.4.5. The ralationship between denudation and tectonics
4.5. Conclusion
4.6. Outstanding questions and future directions
5. Macroscale process systems of mountain belt erosion / Niels Hovius
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Global sediment flux
5.2.1. Empirical models for sediment yiedd: the role of climate and relief
5.2.2. Tectonic control on sediment yield
5.3. Landsliding
5.3.1. Limits to local relied
5.3.2. Rate and scaling behaviour of landslides
5.3.3. Residence time
5.3.4. causes of slope instability
5.4. Drainage paterns
5.4.1. Fluvial entrainment
5.4.2. Transverse drainage
5.4.3. Response of drainage patterns to thrust-generated folding
5.5. Longitudinal river profiles
5.5.1. Mthematical models
5.5.2. Regional consistencies iin profile form
5.5.3. Processes of bedrock incision
5.5.4. Terrace studies
5.5.5. Long profile development
5.5.6. Glacial erosion
5.6. Topography and orogen dynamics
5.6.1. Topographic development and steady state: a synthesis
5.6.2. Surface control of orogen wedge dynamics
5.7. Scaling the mountain
Part III. Morphotectonic evolution in interplate settings. 6. Geodynamic processes in the Southern Alps, New Zealand / J. Mar Tippett and Niels Hovius
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Framework of the South Island collision zone
6.2.1. Tectonic setting of the Southern Alps
6.2.2. Climate
6.2.3. Geomorphology
6.2.4. Lithology and structure
6.2.5. Seismicity
6.2.6. Deep lithospheric structure and thermal regime
6.3. Uplift and erosion of the Southern Alps
6.3.1. Amount and timing of late Cenozoic erosion and rock uplift
6.3.2. Rates of late Cenozoic cooling, erosion and rock uplift
6.3.3 Modern rates of erosion
6.3.4 Modern rates of rock uplift
6.3.5 Modern surface displacement
6.4 Evolution of topographic architecture
6.4.1 Eastern flank
6.4.3 Cross-sectional architecture
6.5 Discussion and outstanding research questions
6.5.1 Topography
6.5.2 Uplft and erosion
6.5.3 Evolution of the Southern Alps
7 Morphotectonic evolution of Taiwan / Jiun-Chuan Lin
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Regional tectonic background
7.3 The nature of the plate collision Zone in Taiwan
7.3.1 Regional tectonics
7.3.2 Seismicity
7.3.3 Uplift and denudation rates
7.3.4 Climatic controls: rtropical storms and episodic formative events
7.4 Tectonic Landforms of Taiwan
7.5 Morphotectonic evolution of Taiwan
7.5.1 Kinematics of arc-continent collision
7.5.2 An uplift-denudation interaction model for the Central Range
7.5.3 Application to the Coastal Range
7.6 Discussion and conclusions
8 Morphotectonics evolution of Japan / Hiroo Ohmori
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Tectonic framwork of Japan
8.3 Seismicity and crustal displacement
8.3.1 Recent and quaternary crustal movements
8.3.2 Inland Quaternary vertical displacements
8.4 Denudation in the quaternary
8.5 Denudation rates in relation from concurrete tectonics and denudation
8.7 Morphological evolution of the Japanese Mountain Ranges
8.8 Discussion and conclusions
9 Large-scale geomorphology of the Andes: interrelationships of tectonics, magmatics and climate / Lorcan Kennan
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Reconstructing Andean Uplift: Methods
9.3 Overview of plate tectonic setting and kinematics
9.4 Uplift of the Northen Andes (11ºN to 4ºS)
9.4.1 Palaeogeographical development
9.4.2 Fission-track data
9.4.3 Palaebotanical evidence
9.4.4 High-altitude palaeosurfaces in Colombia
9.5 Uplift of the Central Andes (4ºS to 46ºS)
9.5.1 Palaeogeographical development
9.5.2 Fission-track and other cooling ages in Peru and Bolivia
9.5.3 Palaeobotanical evidence
9.5.4 High-altitude palaeosurfaces in Peru, Chile and Bolivia
9.5.5 Southern Puna and easter thrust belt of northern Argentina
9.6 Uplift of the Southern Andes (46ºS - 57ºS)
9.7 Discussion
9.8 Conclusions and reserch questions
10 Morphotectonic evolution of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau / Eric J. Fielding
10.1 introduction
10.2 Tectonic Models
10.3 Previous geomorphological studies
10.4 Morphological Characteristics
10.5 Landform development
10.6 Summary of morphotectonic history
10.7 Conclusions
Part Iv. Morphotectonic evolution in intraplate seetting. 11. Geomorphological evolution of the East Austrlian continental margin / Paul Bishop and Geoff Goldrick
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Character of the East Australian continental margin
11.3. Southeast Australian denudation
11.3.1. Escarpement retreat across a downwarped coastal strip?
11.3.2. Apatite fission-track thermochronology data and margin denudation
11.3.3. Denudation and margin rebound
11.4. Southeast Australian rivers: planform
11.4.1. Cenozoic valley-filling lavas and southeast Australian drainage hstory
11.4.2. Mesozoic drainage
11.5. Southeast Australian rivers: Long profiles
11.5.1. Cenozoin profiles
11.5.2. Modern river long profiles
11.5.2.1. Introduction - 11.5.2.2. Summary of a more general equilibrium river long profile form
11.5.2.3. The long proile characteristics of the Lachlan basin drainge net
11.6. Synthesis and discussion - 11.6.1. Synthesis
11.6.2. East Australia and the modelling of the evolution of high-elevarion passive continental margins
11.7. Future directions and research issues
Appendix: Theoretical derivation of a general form of the equilibrium long profile
12. Morphotectonic evolution of the South Atlantc margins of Africa and South America / Roderick W. Brown, Kery Gallagher, Andrew J. W. Gleadow and Michael A. Summerfield. 12.1. Introduction
12.2. Morphology of the margins
12.3. Regional geology and palaeogeography
12.3.1. Pre-break-up Paraná and Karoo basins
12.3.2. Syn- and post-break-up magmatism
12.3.3. Post-break-up sedimentation and magmatism
12.4. Continental break-up and rifting in the South Atlantic
12.4.1. Break-up and rifting chronology
12.4.2. Regional tectonic setting and structural control
12.4.3. Offshore basins
12.4.4. Post-break-up plate moion changes
12.5. Neotectonics
12.6. Denudation chronologies from fission-track data
12.7. Fission-track data from the South Atlantic margins
12.7.1. The southeast Brazilian margin
12.7.2. The southwest African margin
12.7.2.1. Soth Africa
12.7.2.2. Namibia
12.8. Mapping denudation over time
12.9. Post-break-up landscape evolution
12.10. Conclussions and outstanding research questions
13. Late Cenozoic landscape evolution of the US Atlantic passive margin: ingights into a Norh American great escarpment / Frank J. Pazzaglia and Thomas W. Gardner. 13.1. Introducion
13.2. Morphological and geological setting
13.3. Previous work
13.4. Late Cenozoic flexural deformation of the Middle and Southern Atlantic margin
13.4.1. Offshore basins
13.4.2. Continental denudation - 13.4.3. Coastal plain
13.4.4. Piedmont terraces
13.4.5. Time lines
13.5. Geodynamic models
13.5.1. One-dimensional model
13.5.2. Two-dimensional model
13.5.3. Methological and data errors
13.6. Results
13.7. Discussion and conclussions
13.7.1. The Fall zone, Piedmont and coastal plain
13.7.2. he Blue ridge and drainage divide
13.7.3. A North American great escarpment
14. Linking tectonicas and landscape development in a passive margin setting: the Transartactic mountains / Andrew Kerr, David E. Sugden and Michael A. Summerfield. 14.1. Introduction
14.2. The Transantartic mountains
14.2.1. Morphology
14.2.2. Geology
14.3. Geophysical, geochemical and geochronological data
14.3.1. Gravity and magnetic data
14.3.2. Fission-track data
14.3.3. Sesmic and structural data
14.3.4. Geochemical and geochronological data from volcanic rocks
14.4. Evidence for surface processes
14.4.1. Role of recent glacial erosion
14.4.2. Models of landscape evolution
14.4.3. Climatic interprretarion of ladscape development
14.5. Tectonic models of ladscape development
14.6. Towards a model of landscape evolution in the dry valleys region
14.6.1. Landscape components
14.6.2. Denudation chronology
14.6.3. Model of landscape evolution
14.7. Integration of geomorphic and tectonic approachers: broader research issues
14.8. Conclussions
15. Morphotectonic evolution of the Western Ghats, India / Y. Gunnell and L. Fleitout. 15.1. Introduction
15.2. The Western Ghats passive margin shoulder. Overview
15.3. Theoretical models
15.4. Modelling assumptions and geomorphological constraints
15.5. Flexural model and erosional history
15.6. Discussion
15.6.1. The lithospheric model: strenghs and limitations
15.6.2. Fission-track data in global geomorphology: advantages and disadvantages
15.7. Conclussions
16. The growth and decay of oceanic islands / A. B. Watts. 16.1. Introduction
16.2. Growth
16.3. Flexure of the lithosphere
16.4. Drowned active volcanoes
16.5. Decay
16.6. Discussions.

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