Continental Basin and Orogenic Processes: Tectonic Deformation and Associated Landscape and Environmental Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Continental Basin and Orogenic Processes: Tectonic Deformation and Associated Landscape and Environmental Evolution write by Xuhua Shi. This book was released on 2022-09-16. Continental Basin and Orogenic Processes: Tectonic Deformation and Associated Landscape and Environmental Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution
Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution write by Sean D. Willett. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Liwu River runs a short course; its channel head at the water divide in Taiwan's Central Range is a mere 35 km from its outflow into the Pacific Ocean. But in those short 35 km, the Liwu has carved one of the world's geographic wonders: the spectacular Taroko Gorge with marble and granite walls soaring nearly 1000 m above the river channel. Taroko Gorge was a fitting venue for a 2003 Penrose Conference that addressed the coupled processes of tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution. The young mountains, extreme weather, and dramatic landforms provided an appropriate backdrop to wide-ranging discussions of geomorphic processes, climate and meteorology, sediment generation and transport, the effects of erosion on tectonics, and new analytical and modeling tools used to address these processes and problems. This volume's papers extend that discussion, reaching across fields that have experienced rapid advances in the past decade."--Publisher's website.
Landscapes on the Edge
Landscapes on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes on the Edge write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2010-04-25. Landscapes on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During geologic spans of time, Earth's shifting tectonic plates, atmosphere, freezing water, thawing ice, flowing rivers, and evolving life have shaped Earth's surface features. The resulting hills, mountains, valleys, and plains shelter ecosystems that interact with all life and provide a record of Earth surface processes that extend back through Earth's history. Despite rapidly growing scientific knowledge of Earth surface interactions, and the increasing availability of new monitoring technologies, there is still little understanding of how these processes generate and degrade landscapes. Landscapes on the Edge identifies nine grand challenges in this emerging field of study and proposes four high-priority research initiatives. The book poses questions about how our planet's past can tell us about its future, how landscapes record climate and tectonics, and how Earth surface science can contribute to developing a sustainable living surface for future generations.
The Routledge Companion to Big History
The Routledge Companion to Big History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Big History write by Craig Benjamin. This book was released on 2019-08-01. The Routledge Companion to Big History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community, including big history’s relationship to science, social science, the humanities, and the future, as well as teaching big history and ‘little big histories’. Considering an ever-expanding range of theoretical, pedagogical and research topics, the book addresses such questions as what is the relationship between big history and scientific research, how are big historians working with philosophers and religious thinkers to help construct ‘meaning’, how are leading theoreticians making sense of big history and its relationship to other creation narratives and paradigms, what is ‘little big history’, and how does big history impact on thinking about the future? The book highlights the place of big history in historiographical traditions and the ways in which it can be used in education and public discourse across disciplines and at all levels. A timely collection with contributions from leading proponents in the field, it is the ideal guide for those wanting to engage with the theories and concepts behind big history.
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins write by Cathy Busby. This book was released on 2011-12-07. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science. Many of the world's leading researchers in this field have been brought together in this volume to provide concise overviews of the current state of the subject. The plate tectonic revolution of the 1960's provided the framework for detailed models on the structure of orogens and basins, summarized in a 1995 textbook edited by Busby and Ingersoll. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances focuses on key topics or areas where the greatest strides forward have been made, while also providing on-line access to the comprehensive 1995 book. Breakthroughs in new techniques are described in Section 1, including detrital zircon geochronology, cosmogenic nuclide dating, magnetostratigraphy, 3-D seismic, and basin modelling. Section 2 presents the new models for rift, post-rift, transtensional and strike slip basin settings. Section 3 addresses the latest ideas in convergent margin tectonics, including the sedimentary record of subduction intiation and subduction, flat-slab subduction, and arc-continent collision; it then moves inboard to forearc basins and intra-arc basins, and ends with a series of papers formed under compessional strain regimes, as well as post-orogenic intramontane basins. Section 4 examines the origin of plate interior basins, and the sedimentary record of supercontinent formation. This book is required reading for any advanced student or professional interested in sedimentology, plate tectonics, or petroleum geoscience. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/busby/sedimentarybasins.
