Geology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States

ISBN-13: 9780128111918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 636 str.

Evansvi Joseph A. (University of Southern Indiana DiPietro

Opis

Landscape Evolution in the United States, Second Edition is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and application within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology, and climatology of the United States. The vast diversity of terrain and landscape across the United States makes this an ideal tool for geoscientists worldwide that research the country's geological and landscape evolution. The book provides an explanation of how landscape forms, how it evolves, and why it looks the way it does. Rather than limiting the coverage specifically to tectonics or to the origin and evolution of rocks with little regard for the actual landscape beyond general desert, river, and glacial features, this book concentrates specifically on the origin of the landscape itself with specific and exhaustive reference to examples from across the United States. This new edition is fully updated with greater detail throughout and additional figures, maps, drawings, and photographs. Beginning with a discussion of understanding how rock type and rock structure combine with tectonic activity, climate, isostasy, and sea level change to produce landscape and to predict how landscape will evolve Landscape Evolution in the United States goes on to apply those concepts to specific examples throughout the United States, making it a valuable resource for understanding theoretical geological concepts through a practical lens.

• Presents the complexities of physical geography, geology, geomorphology, and climatology of the United States through an interdisciplinary, highly accessible approach
• Offers hundreds of full-color figures, maps and photographs that capture the systematic interaction of land, rock, rivers, glaciers, global wind patterns and climate, including Google Earth images
• Provides a thorough assessment of the logic, rationale, and tools required to understand how to interpret landscape and the geological history of the Earth
• Features exercises that conclude each chapter, aiding in the retention of key concepts

Updates to this edition:

• Fully updated with greater detail throughout and additional figures, maps, drawings, and photographs
• Includes additional subheadings so that material is easier to find and digest
• Additional and expanded chapters, including an all-new chapter on glaciation
• Expanded exercises and use of Google Earth images enhance understanding

Recenzje

"This extensive book introduces general concepts and principles rales of Geology and Geomorphology, and illustrates, with examples from the United States, how its application allows us mite rebuild history geological and the evolution of landscape of a region. As notes its author, Joseph A. DiPietro, the purpose of the work is not tell the story geological and describe the geomorphology of the country, but rather bring to the reader how can we interpret them from available evidence and using the concepts necessary. The Professor has carried out numerous geological mapping works in his country, and has devoted a good part of his research contributions to the study of the structure of the Himalayas in Pakistan. The book is an expanded review of the publication of 2013, Landscape Evolution in the United States: An Introduction to the Geography, Geology and Natural History. The new title seems to give the idea of ??what it is about of a textbook that could serve as a reference basic for students of Geology and Geomorphology of any country. However, as reflected in the title above, the work is aimed mainly at people interested in knowing the geomorphology of states States (excluding Alaska) and its geological determinant gicos." --OTRAS Publication

Spis treści

PART I - KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION 1. The Tortoise and the Hare 2. River Systems 3. Component: The Rock/Sediment Type 4. Component: The Structural Form 5. Forcing Agent: The Tectonic System 6. Forcing Agent: The Climatic System 7. Forcing Agent: Isostasy 8. Forcing Agent: Sea Level Change 9. Mechanisms That Impart Change to Landscape 10. Age and Evolution of Landscape

PART II - STRUCTURAL PROVINCES 11. Structural Provinces 12. A Daughter of The Snows: Glacial Landscapes 13. Sediment and Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers 14. Crystalline- Cored Mid-Continent Anticlines and Domes 15. Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts 16. Hinterland Deformation Belts 17. Young Volcanic Rocks of the Cordillera 18. Normal Fault-Dominated Landscapes 19. Cascadia Volcanic Arc System 20. California Strike-Slip System

O autorze

Joseph A. DiPietro is Professor of Geology at the University of Southern Indiana. His research interests are in the fields of structural geology, tectonics, and metamorphism. He has been on the faculty at University of Southern Indiana since 1991 where he teaches Physical Geology, Landscapes and Geology of North America, Mineralogy, Structural Geology, and Tectonics. Most of his research has been on the tectonics of the Pakistan Himalaya where he mapped along the suture zone that separates India from Asia. He has also worked for the New York State Geological Survey mapping in the Adirondack Mountains and for the Idaho Geological Survey mapping in the Clearwater Mountains. He has also conducted mapping and research in the Green Mountains of Vermont.