Tectonically Active Landscapes

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ISBN: 9781405190121 | 1405190124
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/20/2009

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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.

Preface	p. x
Tectonic Settings and Scope of Inquiry
Study Regions
Introduction	p. 2
North America-Pacific Plate Boundary	p. 4
Walker Lane-Eastern California Shear Zone	p. 4
Panamint Range	p. 7
Sierra Nevada	p. 8
Diablo Range	p. 12
Mendocino Triple Junction	p. 14
Australia-Pacific Plate Boundary	p. 16
India-Asia Plates Collision	p. 20
Aegean Transtension	p. 21
Responses of Hillslopes to Bedrock Uplift
Drainage Basins
Hydraulic Coordinates	p. 26
Basin Shapes	p. 27
Panamint Range Watersheds	p. 27
Divide Migration and Stream Capture	p. 30
Stream Capture and Changing Geomorphic Processes	p. 30
Drainage-Basin Evolution in a Fold and Thrust Belt	p. 39
Wrench-Fault Tectonics	p. 39
Mt. Diablo Fold and Thrust Belt	p. 40
Tectonically Translocated Watersheds	p. 43
Hillslopes
Hillslope Model Boundaries	p. 49
Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation of the Diablo Range Study Area	p. 50
Sediment Flux and Denudation Rates	p. 56
Ridgecrests	p. 57
California Coast Ranges	p. 57
Badlands	p. 61
Canyonlands	p. 62
The Loop of the San Juan River	p. 64
Footslopes	p. 69
Cross-Valley Shapes	p. 72
Lithologic Controls	p. 72
Tectonic Controls	p. 74
Tectonic Signatures in Hillslopes	p. 77
Tectonic Controls on Hillslope Denudation
Sediment Yield	p. 85
Influences of Rock Uplift	p. 85
Lithologic Controls	p. 89
Mass Movements	p. 90
Rain, Ground-Water Levels, and Landslide Thresholds	p. 91
Ground-Water-Induced Stresses in Hillslopes	p. 91
Rain and Hillslope Stability	p. 96
Landslides of Tectonically Active Regions	p. 102
Tectonics and Topography
A Debate About Steady State
A Century of Conceptual Models	p. 113
Hillslope Degradation	p. 119
Erosion of Mountain Ranges	p. 123
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