Australian Landscapes
Product code: SP346
Print publication date: 15/12/2010
Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Geomorphology, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393141
Author/Edited by: Edited by P Bishop and B Pillans
Weight: 0.95kg
Number of pages: 328
Online publication date: 16/11/2010
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/346/1
£90.00
Log in for your member priceFull Description
Product Code: SP346
Edited by P Bishop and B Pillans
Special Publication 346
Australian Landscapes provides an up-to-date statement on the geomorphology of Australia. Karst, desert, bedrock rivers, coasts, submarine geomorphology, biogeomorphology and tectonics are all covered, aided by the latest geochronological techniques and remote sensing approaches. The antiquity and enduring geomorphological stability of the Australian continent are emphasized in several chapters, but the cutting-edge techniques used to establish that stability also reveal much complexity, including areas of considerable recent tectonic activity and a wide range of rates of landscape change.
Links to the biological sphere are explored, in relation both to the lengthy human presence on the continent and to a biota that resulted from Cenozoic aridification of the continent, dated using new techniques. New syntheses of glaciation in Tasmania, aridification in South Australia and aeolian activity all focus on Quaternary landscape evolution.
This major synthesis of Australian geomorphology is dedicated to Professor John Chappell (The Australian National University) and Professor Martin Williams (University of Adelaide).
Published online on the Lyell Collection https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/346/1
Other Societies rate: please see the Bookshop FAQ for a list of qualifying membership organisations.
All items listed on the online bookshop are physical products dispatched from our warehouse in Bath, UK. The purchase of a print copy of a book does not include access to the online content.
Pay-per-view content purchased on the Lyell Collection site does not include a printed copy of the book or article.
Dedication
BISHOP, P. & PILLANS, B. Introduction: Australian geomorphology into the 21st century
NOTT, J. A theory (involving tropical cyclones) on the formation of coarse-grained sand beach ridges in NE Australia
TRAVERS, A., ELIOT, M. J., ELIOT, I. G. & JENDRZEJCZAK, M. Sheltered sandy beaches of southwestern Australia
SCHMIDT, S., DE DECKKER, P., ETCHEBER, H. & CARADEC, S. Are the Murray Canyons offshore southern Australia still active for sediment transport?
THOM, B. G., KEENE, J. B., COWELL, P. J. & DALEY, M. East Australian marine abrasion surface
HOLDAWAY, S. J. & FANNING, P. C. Geoarchaeology in Australia: understanding human–environment interactions
DUNKERLEY, D. Ecogeomorphology in the Australian drylands and the role of biota in mediating the effects of climate change on landscape processes and evolution
FUJIOKA, T. & CHAPPELL, J. History of Australian aridity: chronology in the evolution of arid landscapes
HESSE, P. P. The Australian desert dunefields: formation and evolution in an old, flat, dry continent
COLHOUN, E. A., KIERNAN, K., BARROWS, T. T. & GOEDE, A. Advances in Quaternary studies in Tasmania
HABERLAH, D., GLASBY, P., WILLIAMS, M. A. J., HILL, S. M., WILLIAMS, F., RHODES, E. J., GOSTIN, V., O’FLAHERTY, A. & JACOBSEN, G. E. ‘Of droughts and flooding rains’: an alluvial loess record from central South Australia spanning the last glacial cycle
HEIMSATH, A. M., CHAPPELL, J. & FIFIELD, K. Eroding Australia: rates and processes from Bega Valley to Arnhem Land
QUIGLEY, M. C., CLARK, D. & SANDIFORD, M. Tectonic geomorphology of Australia
BISHOP, P. & GOLDRICK, G. Lithology and the evolution of bedrock rivers in post-orogenic settings: constraints from the high-elevation passive continental margin of SE Australia
OSBORNE, R. A. L. Rethinking eastern Australian caves
CHIVAS, A. R. & ATLHOPHENG, J. R. Oxygen-isotope dating the Yilgarn regolith
Index
