Geomorphology and global tectonics / edited by Michael A. Summerfield

Includes Index.

PART I : Introduction -- Geomorphology and global tectonics : introduction -- PART II : General models and empirical approaches -- Application of digital elevation models o macroscale tectonic geomorphology -- Coupled tectonic - surface process models with applications to rifted margins and collisional orogens -- Fission-track thermochronology and the long term denudational response to tectonics -- Macroscale process systems of mountain belt erosion -- PART III : Morphotectonic evolution in interplate settings -- Geodynamic processes in the Southern Alps -- New Zealand -- Morphotectonic evolution of Taiwan -- Morphotectonic evolution of Japan -- Large-scale geomorphology of the Andes : interrelationships of tectonics, magmatism and climate -- Morphotectonic evolution of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau -- PART IV : Morphotectonic evolution in intraplate settings -- Geomorphological evolution of the East Australian continental margin -- Morphotectonic evolution of the South Atlantic margins of Africa and South America -- Late Cenozoic landscape evolution of the US Atlantic passive margin : insights into a North American great escarpment -- Linking tectonics and landscape development in a passive margin setting : the transantarctic mountains -- Morphotectonic evolution of the Western Ghats, India -- The growth and decay of oceanic islands