Geology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128111918,0128111917
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128111917
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128111918
- Author: Joseph A. DiPietro
Geology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States, Second Edition, is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and applications within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States. The vast diversity of terrain and landscape across the United States makes this an ideal tool for geoscientists worldwide who research the country’s geological and landscape evolution. The book provides an explanation of how landscape forms, how it evolves and why it looks the way it does. This new edition is fully updated with greater detail throughout and additional figures, maps, drawings and photographs.
Table of contents:
PART I – KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
1. The Tortoise and the Hare
2. River Systems
3. Component: The Rock/Sediment Type
4. Component: The Structural Form
5. Forcing Agent: The Tectonic System
6. Forcing Agent: The Climatic System
7. Forcing Agent: Isostasy
8. Forcing Agent: Sea Level Change
9. Mechanisms That Impart Change to Landscape
10. Age and Evolution of Landscape
PART II – STRUCTURAL PROVINCES
11. Structural Provinces
12. A Daughter of The Snows: Glacial Landscapes
13. Sediment and Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers
14. Crystalline- Cored Mid-Continent Anticlines and Domes
15. Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts
16. Hinterland Deformation Belts
17. Young Volcanic Rocks of the Cordillera
18. Normal Fault-Dominated Landscapes
19. Cascadia Volcanic Arc System
20. California Strike-Slip System
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