Uplift, Erosion & Stability: Perspectives on Long-term Landscape Evolution
Product code: SP162
Print publication date: 04/11/1999
Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Geomorphology, Tectonics, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862390478
Author/Edited by: B. J. Smith, W. B. Whalley and P. A. Warke
Weight: 0.9kg
Number of pages: 278
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/162/1
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Product Code: SP162
Edited by B. J. Smith, W. B. Whalley and P. A. Warke
Special Publication 162
An Interdisciplinary collection of papers related to long-term landscape development, integrating landscape and tectonic processes. The presentations demonstrate that studies of present-day processes can be successfully placed within an evolutionary framework and geological setting, the necessity of which increases as appreciation of the antiquity of many landscapes grows. Coverage includes: British Isles, NW Europe, Mediterranean Basin, Middle East, Himalaya, Andes and Antarctica.The papers highlight the significance of recent advances in analytical technology for improving interpretation of both geologically 'ancient' and 'young' landscapes. It is hoped that, by demonstrating the benefits of interdisciplinary discourse, a widening interest in landscape studies will be encouraged. Readership: Physical geologists; Geomorphologists; Geochronologists and Tectonic Geologists.
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Introduction • The British Isles • Evolving models of the Tertiary evolutionary geomorphology of southern England, with special reference to the Chalklands • On the uplift and denudation of the Weald • Chattian and Miocene elements in the modern landscape of western Britain and Ireland • Crustal anisotropy and differential uplift: their role in long-term landform development • Mainland Europe and Scandinavia • Pre-Devonian landscape of the Baltic Oil-Shale Basin, NW of the Russian platform • Uplift histories revealed by landforms of the Scandinavian domes • Inherited landscapes of the Sudetic Foreland (SW Poland) and implications for reconstructing uplift and erosional histories of upland terrains in Central Europe • The application of palaeo-landsurface analysis to the study of recent tectonics in central Italy • An overview of Pliocene to present-day uplift and denudation rates in the Northern Apennine • Africa and The Middle East • Structural and stratigraphic perspectives on the uplift and erosional history of Djebel Cherichira and Oued Grigema, a segment of the Tunisian Atlas thrust fault • Landscape evolution and the preservation of tectonic landforms along the northern Yammouneh Fault, Lebanon • Influence of crustal movements on landforms, erosion and sediment deposition in the Irangi Hills, central Tanzania, Asia • Uplift and landscape stability at Taroko, eastern Taiwan • Preliminary observations on the geomorphic evolution of the Guide Basin, Qinghai Province, China: implications for the uplift of the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau • The landscape evolution of Nemegt Uul: a late Cenozoic transpressional uplift in the Gobi Altai, southern Mongolia • The Americas • Conrad, C. T. & Saunderson, H. C. Temporal and spatial variation in suspended sediment yields from eastern North America • Palaeo-landsurfaces and neotectonic analysis in the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina • The significance of high planation surfaces in the Andes of Ecuador • Antarctica • Cosmogenic isotope data support previous evidence of extremely low rates of denudation in the Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica • Index
