Tectonic geomorphology of mountains : a new approach to paleoseismology /

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Autor principal: Bull, William B.
Formato: Desconocido
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.
Edición:2nd ed.
Materias:
Geología
Geomorfología
Montañas
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Scrunch and stretch bedrock uplift
  • 1.1 Inroduction
  • 1.2 Pure uplift, stretch and scrunch bedrock uplift
  • 1.2.1 Isostatic and tectonc uplift
  • 1.2.2 Stretch and scrucht tectonics
  • 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
  • 2.2.1 Base level
  • 2.2.2 Base-level change
  • 2.2.3 The base level of erosion
  • 2.2.4 The changing level of the sea
  • 2.2.5 Spatial decay of the effects of local base-level changes
  • 2.3 Threshold of critical power in streams
  • 2.3.1 Relative strenths of stream power and resisting power
  • 2.3.2 Threshold-Intersection points
  • 2.4 Equilibrium in streams
  • 2.4.1 Classifiction of stream terraces
  • 2.4.2 Feedback mechanisms
  • 2.4.3 Dynamic and static equilibrium
  • 2.5 Time lags of response
  • 2.5.1 Responses to pulses of uplift
  • 2.5.2 Pertrbaions that limit continuity of fluvial systems
  • 2.5.3 Lithologic and climatic controls of relaxation times
  • 2.5.4 Time spans needed to erode landsforms
  • 2.6 Tectonically-induced downcutting
  • 2.6.1 Straths, stream-gradient indices, and strath terraces
  • 2.6.2 Modulation of stream-terrace formation by Pleistocene-Holocene climatic changes
  • 2.7 Nontectonic based-level fall and strath terrace foration
  • 2.8 Hydraulic coordinates
  • 3 Mountain fronts
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Tectonically active escarpments
  • 3.2.1 Faceted spur ridges
  • 3.2.2 Mountain-Piedmont junctions
  • 3.2.3 Piedmont forelands
  • 3.3. Fault segmentations of mountain fronts
  • 3.3.1. Different ways to study active faults
  • 3.3.2. Segmentation concepts and classification
  • 3.3.3. Fault-segment boundaties
  • 3.3.4. Normal fault surgave ruptures
  • 3.3.5. Strike-slip fault surface ruptures
  • 4. Tectonic activity classes of mountain fronts. 4.1. Tectonic setting of the North America-aciifc plate boundary
  • 4.2. Apparisal of regional mountain front tectonic activity
  • 4.2.1. Geomorphic tools for describing relative uplift rates
  • 4.2.1.1. Mountain-front sinuosity
  • 4.2.1.2. Widths of valleys
  • 4.2.1.3. Triangular facets
  • 4.2.2. Diagnostic ladscape classes of relative tectonic activity
  • 4.2.3. Regional asessments of relative tectonic activity
  • 4.2.3.1. Response time complications and strike-slip faulting
  • 4.2.3.2. Maps of relative uplift
  • 5. Fault scarps. 5.1. General features
  • 5.2. Scarp morphology changes wich time
  • 5.2.1. Changes in scarp height
  • 5.2.2. Decreases in maximum scarp slope
  • 5.2.3. Diffusion-equation modelin
  • 5.3. Climatic controls of fault-scarp morphology
  • - 5.4. Lithologic controls of fault-scarp morphology
  • 5.4.1. Fault rupture of different materials
  • 5.4.2. Scarp materials
  • 5.4.2.3. Scarp morphology
  • 5.5. Laser swath digital elevation models
  • 5.6. Dating fault scarps with terrestial cosmogenic nuclides
  • 5.6.1. Alluvium
  • 5.6.2. Bedrock
  • 6. Analyses of prehistorical seismic shaking. 6.1. Paleoseismology goals
  • 6.2. Earthquake-generated regional rockfall events
  • 6.2.1. New Zealand earthquakes
  • 6.2.1.1. Tectonic setting
  • 6.2.1.2. Background and procedures
  • 6.2.1.3. Diagnostic lichen-size peaks
  • 6.2.1.4. Tree-ring analyses
  • 6.2.1.5. Alpine fault earthquakes
  • 6.2.2. California earthquakes
  • 6.2.2.1. Calibration of lichen growth rates
  • 6.2.2.2. Recent cliff collapse
  • 6.2.2.3. Rockfall processes in glaciated valleys
  • 6.2.2.4. San Andras fault earthquakes
  • 6.2.2.5. Lichenometry and precise radiocarbon dating methods.

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