Tectonic geomorphology of mountains : a new approach to paleoseismology / William B. Bull.

By:

Bull, William B, 1930-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Description: x, 316 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

9781405154796
1405154799 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

551.432 BUL 22

LOC classification:

QE511.44 .B85 2007

Contents:

1. Scrunch and Stretch Bedrock Uplift -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Pure Uplift, Stretch and Scrunch Bedrock Uplift -- 1.3. Landscape Responses to Regional Uplift -- 2. Concepts for Studies of Rising Mountains -- 2.1. Themes and Topics -- 2.2. The Fundamental Control of Base Level -- 2.3. Threshold of Critical Power in Streams -- 2.4. Equilibrium in Streams -- 2.5. Time Lags of Response -- 2.6. Tectonically-Induced Downcutting -- 2.7. Nontectonic Base-Level Fall and Strath Terrace Formation -- 2.8. Hydraulic Coordinates -- 3. Mountain Fronts -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Tectonically Active Escarpments -- 3.3. Fault Segmentation of Mountain Fronts -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Tectonic Activity Classes of Mountain Fronts -- 4.1. Tectonic Setting of the North America-Pacific Plate Boundary -- 4.2. Appraisal of Regional Mountain Front Tectonic Activity -- 4.3. Summary -- 5. Fault Scarps -- 5.1. General Features -- 5.2. Scarp Morphology Changes with Time -- 5.3. Climatic Controls of Fault-Scarp Morphology -- 5.4. Lithologic Controls of Fault-Scarp Morphology -- 5.5. Laser Swath Digital Elevation Models -- 5.6. Dating Fault Scarps with Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides -- 5.7. Summary -- 6. Analyses of Prehistorical Seismic Shaking -- 6.1. Paleoseismology Goals -- 6.2. Earthquake-Generated Regional Rockfall Events -- 6.3. Summary.

Review: "This book explores how landscapes respond to tectonic deformation. Including much previously unpublished research and theory, Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains uses new approaches to enhance theoretical models of landscape evolution and to better assess hazards caused by earthquakes. Readers will learn how to use key landforms as diagnostic indicators of changing landscapes, to estimate rates of mountain-range uplift, and use landslide sensitivity to earthquakes to map the locations and intensity of prehistorical seismic shaking." "Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains is essential reading for research geologists and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the earth sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reserves	Two hour loans
Book	Windermere	Non-Fiction	551.432 BUL (Browse shelf(Opens below))		1	Available		P01422860		Geology of New Zealand - Level 6 Toi Ohomai

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-304) and index.

"This book explores how landscapes respond to tectonic deformation. Including much previously unpublished research and theory, Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains uses new approaches to enhance theoretical models of landscape evolution and to better assess hazards caused by earthquakes. Readers will learn how to use key landforms as diagnostic indicators of changing landscapes, to estimate rates of mountain-range uplift, and use landslide sensitivity to earthquakes to map the locations and intensity of prehistorical seismic shaking." "Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains is essential reading for research geologists and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the earth sciences."--BOOK JACKET.