Geomorphology and global tectonics / edited by Michael A. Summerfield
Contributor(s): Summerfield, Michael A [Editor].
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Wiley, 2000.Description: xviii + 367p. 23.5 cm.ISBN: 9788126533077.Subject(s): Science -- Earth science -- Geology -- Geomorphology | GeographyDDC classification: 551.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Geography Departmental Library Geography Stack | 551.4 SUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2018 | Available | 16307 |
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
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