000 01998nam a22002297a 4500
020 _a9788126533077
_cRs.1095.00
040 _aHCCL
041 _aeng
082 _a551.4
_bSUG
245 _aGeomorphology and global tectonics
_cedited by Michael A. Summerfield
260 _aNew Delhi
_bWiley
_c2000
300 _axviii + 367p.
_b23.5 cm.
500 _aIncludes Index.
505 0 _aPART 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
650 _aScience
_xEarth science
_xGeology
_xGeomorphology
650 _aGeography
700 1 _4ed.
_aSummerfield, Michael A.
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_2ddc
999 _c5176
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