This volume describes mountains from all over the world, with an emphasis on mountain landforms, but also looks at their rocks, structure and age. This leads to a deduction on the mechanism which formed them, causing the authors to reject the pre-conceived and well known hypothesis that plate tectonics and folding creates mountains. The book approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. It illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers...
This volume describes mountains from all over the world, with an emphasis on mountain landforms, but also looks at their rocks, structure and age. Thi...
Regolith is the layer of broken and unconsolidated rock and soil material that forms the surface of the land and covers the bedrock. An understanding of its properties and structure is very important in topics such as groundwater supply, soil conservation and exploration efforts for economic materials.
Regolith is the layer of broken and unconsolidated rock and soil material that forms the surface of the land and covers the bedrock. An understanding ...
This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith science describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It provides details for mapping regolith landforms, as well as objective information on applications in mineral exploration and natural resource management. Regolith Science also provides a concise history of weathering through time in Australia. It includes previously unpublished information on elemental abundances in regolith materials along with detailed...
This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith science describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the imp...
This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith science describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It provides details for mapping regolith landforms, as well as objective information on applications in mineral exploration and natural resource management. Regolith Science also provides a concise history of weathering through time in Australia. It includes previously unpublished information on elemental abundances in regolith materials along with detailed...
This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith science describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the imp...
