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Geology and Landscape Evolution : General Principles Applied to the United States
| Geology and Landscape Evolution : General Principles Applied to the United States |
| Autore | DiPietro Joseph A |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Diego : , : Elsevier, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 551.40973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Landscapes - United States - History
Landscape changes - United States - History Landscape assessment - United States - History |
| ISBN | 0-12-811191-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Geology and Landscape Evolution -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Conversions -- I. Keys to Understanding Landscape Evolution -- 1 The Tortoise and the Hare -- How Slow Is Slow? -- Maps, Cross-Sections, and Scale -- Physiographic Regions and Provinces -- Interior Plains and Plateaus -- Appalachian Mountain System -- Coastal Plain -- Cordilleran Mountain System -- Components, Forcing Agents, Mechanisms, and Landscape Response -- Geology, Landscape, and Tectonics -- Geologic Time Scale -- Questions -- 2 River Systems -- Divides -- Mississippi River System -- Atlantic Seaboard-Gulf Coast River System -- St. Lawrence River System -- Rio Grande-West Texas River System -- Colorado River System -- Columbia River System -- California River System -- Great Basin River System -- Hudson Bay River System -- Comparison of River Systems With Physiographic Provinces -- Questions -- 3 Component: The Rock/Sediment Type -- Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition -- The Four Rock/Sediment Types -- Sedimentary Rock -- Crystalline Rock -- Volcanic Rock -- Unconsolidated Sediment -- The Rock Cycle -- Rock Hardness and Differential Erosion -- Influence of Bedrock on Landscape -- Landscape in Sedimentary Rocks -- Landscape in Crystalline Rocks -- Landscape in Volcanic Rocks -- Landscape in Unconsolidated Sediment -- Karst Landscape -- Distribution of Rock/Sediment Type Among the 26 Physiographic Provinces -- Questions -- 4 Component: The Structural Form -- Structural Form: The Style of Rock Deformation -- Folds -- Vertical Joint Sets -- Faults -- Fault Reactivation -- Brittle and Ductile Faults -- Influence of Dipping Layers on Landscape -- Vertical to Steep-Dipping Rock Layers -- Horizontal to Gently Dipping Rock Layers -- Response of Dipping Layers to Erosional Lowering -- Cuestas and Hogbacks.
Topographic Form and Structural Form -- Recognition of Active Faults -- Structure-Controlled and Erosion-Controlled Landscape -- Questions -- 5 Forcing Agent: The Tectonic System -- The Four Forcing Agents -- Tekton, the Carpenter, the Builder -- Climate, the Sculptor -- Isostasy, the Equalizer -- Sea Level, the Baseline -- The Tectonic Plate -- Plate Boundaries -- Movement of Tectonic Plates -- Rifting and Passive Continental Margins -- Active Continental Margins -- Tectonic Accretion -- Orogeny -- Unconformities -- The Atlantic Passive Continental Margin -- The Pacific Active Continental Margin -- Thermal Plumes and Hot Spots -- Thermal Plumes in the United States -- Questions -- 6 Forcing Agent: The Climate System -- Present-Day Climate Zones -- Controls on Climate -- Latitude -- Proximity to Large Water Bodies -- Global Wind Patterns -- The Tilt of the Earth's Axis of Rotation -- Mountains -- Questions -- 7 Forcing Agent: Isostasy -- Tectonic versus Isostatic Uplift -- Elevation of Continents and Ocean Basins -- Mountain Building and Preservation -- Tectonic Loads -- Thermal Isostasy -- Glaciers -- Deposition -- Erosion -- Questions -- 8 Forcing Agent: Sea Level Change -- Cause of Sea Level Change -- Measuring Sea Level and Sea Level Changes -- Sea Level Changes over the Past 100 Million Years -- Oxygen Isotope Record over the Past 67 Million Years -- Influence of Earth's Orbital Parameters on Glaciation -- Oxygen Isotope Record over the Past 1.8 Million Years -- Sea Level over the Past 150,000 Years -- Recent Temperature History -- Sea Level Response to Recent Temperature History -- The History of Co2 in the Atmosphere -- Questions -- 9 Mechanisms That Impart Change to Landscape -- Uplift and Subsidence -- Surface Uplift/Subsidence and Bedrock Uplift/Subsidence -- How Does Uplift/Subsidence Occur? -- Present-Day Uplift/Subsidence Rates. Measuring Ancient Uplift Rates and Elevation -- Erosion, Deposition, and Rivers -- Graded Rivers and Base Level -- Base Level Changes -- Knickpoint Migration -- Changes in Discharge and Sediment Supply -- The Lower Mississippi River Valley During the Most Recent Glacial Advance -- Present-Day Erosion Rates -- Controls on Rates of Erosion -- Rates of Deposition -- Exhumation -- Erosional Exhumation -- Calculating Rates of Erosional Exhumation -- Tectonic Exhumation -- Volcanism -- Questions -- 10 Evolution of Landscape -- Landscape Grows Old -- Landscape at Topographic Steady-State -- Steady-State as the End-Product of Growing Old -- Rejuvenation -- Reincarnation -- Reincarnation While Growing Old -- Reincarnation due to Volcanism and Tectonic Stress -- Reincarnation due to Glaciation -- Reincarnation due to Burial Beneath Unconsolidated Sediment -- Summary -- Questions -- II. Structural Provinces -- 11 Structural Provinces, Rock Successions, and Tectonic Provinces -- Structural Provinces -- Rock Successions -- The North American Crystalline Shield -- Precambrian Sedimentary/Volcanic Rocks -- The Interior Platform -- The Miogeocline -- Accreted Terranes -- The Atlantic Miogeocline -- Tectonic Provinces -- Hinterland Tectonic Provinces -- Foreland Tectonic Provinces -- The Reactivated Western Craton and the Atlantic Marginal Basin -- Distribution of Rock Successions and Tectonic Provinces -- The Great Unconformity -- Questions -- 12 Glacial Landscape -- Effect Of Glaciation On Landscape -- Landscape Development in Areas of Continental Glaciation -- Landscape Development in Areas of Alpine Glaciation -- A Daughter Of The Snows: Glacial Landscape In The United States -- The Glacial Erosion Boundary In The United States -- The Glacial Erosion Boundary Across North America -- Moraines -- Proglacial Lakes -- Lake Agassiz -- Marine Incursions. Drumlin Fields -- Kame-Kettle Fields -- Eskers -- Sand Dune Fields -- Loess Deposition -- Area South Of The Glacial Limit -- The Teays River -- The Missouri River -- Pluvial Lakes Of The Cordillera -- Questions -- 13 Sediment and Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers -- Landscape in Nearly Flat-Lying Layers -- Bench-and-Slope Landscape -- Erosional Mountains -- Monoclinal Slopes and Hogback Ridges -- The Coastal Plain -- Barrier Islands -- New England -- New Jersey to North Carolina -- South Carolina to Florida -- The Mississippi Embayment -- Texas -- Ancient Shorelines of the Coastal Plain -- The Western Margin of Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers -- The Great Plains -- The Missouri Plateau -- The High Plains -- The Nebraska Sand Hill Region and Ogallala Aquifer -- The Central High Plains -- The Llano Estacado -- The Colorado Piedmont, Pecos Valley, Plains Border, and Edwards Plateau -- The Wyoming Basin -- Uplift of the Wyoming Basin and Northern Great Plains -- The Colorado Plateau -- Incised Meanders -- Bench-and-Slope Landscape -- Mogollon Rim -- Uplifts and Monoclines -- Fractures and Impact Features -- Arches National Park -- Zion National Park -- Bryce Canyon National Park -- Meteor Impact Features -- Sedimentary-Cored Anticlinal and Domal Mountains -- Central Lowlands -- Ozark Plateau -- Salem and Springfield Plateaus -- Boston Mountains -- Uplift History -- The Interior Low Plateaus -- Bench-and-Slope Landscape -- Deformed Rocks of the Shawnee Hills -- Mammoth Cave -- The Appalachian Plateau -- Allegheny Plateau -- Cumberland Plateau -- Comparison of the Pottsville and Cumberland Escarpments -- Questions -- 14 Crystalline-Cored Mid-Continent Anticlines and Domes -- Adirondack Mountains -- St. Francois Mountains -- Wichita, Arbuckle, and Llano Structural Domes -- Wichita Mountains -- Arbuckle Mountains -- Llano Uplift. Landscape Development -- Western Margin of Crystalline-Cored Anticlines and Domes -- Intrusive Domal Mountains -- The Southern Rocky Mountains -- The Front Range -- Sawatch Mountains -- Rio Grande Rift in Central Colorado -- Landscape History of the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau -- Cause of Accelerated Erosion in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau -- First There Is a Mountain -- Anticlinal Mountains of the Middle Rockies -- Wind River Range -- Beartooth Mountains -- Bighorn Mountains -- The Black Hills -- Water Gaps in the Rocky Mountains -- Superior Upland -- Geologic Overview -- Superior Province -- Penokean Province -- Iron Formations -- Sudbury Meteorite Impact Event -- Barron and Baraboo Quartzite -- Keweenawan Rift System -- Questions -- 15 Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts -- Structural Form of Foreland Thrust Faults -- Comparison With the Crystalline-Cored Anticlinal Structure -- Cordilleran Fold and Thrust Belt -- Northern Rocky Mountains -- Eastern Segment of the Northern Rocky Mountains -- Western Segment of the Northern Rocky Mountains -- The Rocky Mountain Trench -- The Idaho-Wyoming Fold and Thrust Belt -- Overview: Appalachian-Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt -- Valley and Ridge Fold and Thrust Belt -- The Great Valley -- Northern Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt -- Geology of the Southern Hudson River Valley -- Central Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt -- Southern Appalachian (Tennessee) Fold and Thrust Belt -- The Western Thrust Belt -- The Central Thrust Belt -- Fault Zones on the Cumberland Plateau -- Distribution of Appalachian Foreland Deformation -- Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt -- Arkansas River Valley-Northern Mountains -- The Fourche Mountains -- The Central Mountains -- Athens Plateau -- Marathon Basin Fold and Thrust Belt -- Water Gaps in the Valley and Ridge and Ouachita Mountains -- Questions. 16 Hinterland Deformation Belts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583337803321 |
DiPietro Joseph A
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| San Diego : , : Elsevier, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The wealth of nature [[electronic resource] ] : environmental history and the ecological imagination / / Donald Worster
| The wealth of nature [[electronic resource] ] : environmental history and the ecological imagination / / Donald Worster |
| Autore | Worster Donald <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/8/0973 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - United States - History
Landscape assessment - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-756069-5
0-19-802394-4 1-280-44183-6 1-4237-3851-9 1-60256-003-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; 1. The Nature We Have Lost; 2. Paths Across the Levee; 3. History as Natural History; 4. Transformations of the Earth; 5. Arranging a Marriage: Ecology and Agriculture; 6. A Sense of Soil; 7. Good Farming and the Public Good; 8. Private, Public, Personal: Americans and the Land; 9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water; 10. Thinking Like a River; 11. An End to Ecstasy; 12. The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development; 13. The Ecology of Order and Chaos; 14. Restoring a Natural Order; 15. John Muir and the Roots of American Environmentalism; 16. The Wealth of Nature; Notes; Index; A |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450433103321 |
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Worster Donald <1941->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The wealth of nature [[electronic resource] ] : environmental history and the ecological imagination / / Donald Worster
| The wealth of nature [[electronic resource] ] : environmental history and the ecological imagination / / Donald Worster |
| Autore | Worster Donald <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/8/0973 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - United States - History
Landscape assessment - United States - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-756069-5
0-19-802394-4 1-280-44183-6 1-4237-3851-9 1-60256-003-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; 1. The Nature We Have Lost; 2. Paths Across the Levee; 3. History as Natural History; 4. Transformations of the Earth; 5. Arranging a Marriage: Ecology and Agriculture; 6. A Sense of Soil; 7. Good Farming and the Public Good; 8. Private, Public, Personal: Americans and the Land; 9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water; 10. Thinking Like a River; 11. An End to Ecstasy; 12. The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development; 13. The Ecology of Order and Chaos; 14. Restoring a Natural Order; 15. John Muir and the Roots of American Environmentalism; 16. The Wealth of Nature; Notes; Index; A |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783361203321 |
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Worster Donald <1941->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The wealth of nature : environmental history and the ecological imagination / / Donald Worster
| The wealth of nature : environmental history and the ecological imagination / / Donald Worster |
| Autore | Worster Donald <1941-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/8/0973 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - United States - History
Landscape assessment - United States - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-756069-5
0-19-802394-4 1-280-44183-6 1-4237-3851-9 1-60256-003-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; 1. The Nature We Have Lost; 2. Paths Across the Levee; 3. History as Natural History; 4. Transformations of the Earth; 5. Arranging a Marriage: Ecology and Agriculture; 6. A Sense of Soil; 7. Good Farming and the Public Good; 8. Private, Public, Personal: Americans and the Land; 9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water; 10. Thinking Like a River; 11. An End to Ecstasy; 12. The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development; 13. The Ecology of Order and Chaos; 14. Restoring a Natural Order; 15. John Muir and the Roots of American Environmentalism; 16. The Wealth of Nature; Notes; Index; A |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825728503321 |
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Worster Donald <1941->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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