1. Edition - March 2009
49.90 Euro
2009. 320 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-9012-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-9012-1 - John Wiley & Sons









Short description
Landscapes are mainly hillslopes with streams occupying less than 10% of drainage-basin areas. This book emphasizes tectonic geomorphology of hills, and treats the network of stream channels as the connecting link between upstream and downstream parts of a fluvial system.

From the contents
Contents.

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x.

PART 1 -- TECTONIC SETTINGS AND SCOPE OF INQUIRY.

1 Study Regions.

1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.

1.2 North America-Pacific Plate Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.

1.3 Australia-Pacific Plate Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.

1 4 India-Asia Plates Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

1 5 Aegean Transtension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.

PART 2 -- RESPONSES OF HILLSLOPES TO BEDROCK UPLIFT.

2 Drainage Basins.

2.1 Hydraulic Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.

2.2 Basin Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.

2.3 Divide Migration and Stream Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.

2.4 Tectonically Translocated Watersheds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.

3 Hillslopes.

3.1 Hillslope Model Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.

3.2 Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation of the Diablo Range Study Area . . . 50.

3.3 Sediment Flux and Denudation Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.

3.4 Ridgecrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.

3.5 Canyonlands 62.

3.6. Cross-Valley Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.

3.7 Tectonic Signatures in Hillslopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.

4 Tectonic Controls on Hillslope Denudation.

4.1 Sediment Yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.

4.2. Mass Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.

PART 3 -- TECTONICS AND topography.

5 A Debate About Steady State.

5.1 A Century of Conceptual Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.

5.2 Hillslope Degradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.

5.3 Erosion of Mountain Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.

5.4 Non-Steady State Erosion of Tectonically Active and Inactive Fluvial Systems 131.

6 Influences of Erosion on Tectonic Deformation and Fault Propagation.

6.1 Exfoliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.

6.2 Ridgecrest Spreading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.

6.3 Erosional Controls of Fault Zone Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.

6.4 Consequences of Erosion Induced by Long-Term Plate Collision . . . . . . 141.

6.5 Fault Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.

7 Tectonic Geomorphology of a Plate Boundary.

7.1 Walker Lane-Eastern California Shear Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.

7.2 Sierra Nevada Microplate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188.

7.3 Mendocino Triple Junction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.

References Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ***