INDICE: Contents.Part I: Introduction.1. Introduction (LAO). a) Definition of mountains. b) Attraction of mountains. c) Global distribution. b) Tectonic and quantitative revolutions.e) Methods of study:.i) Remote sensing. ii) Fieldwork mapping. iii) Field monitoring. iv) Geomorphometrics. v) Sedimentology. vi) Geochronology. vii) Geobarometry and geothermometry. viii) Geodetic methods.Part II: Mechanism of Formation.2. Orogensis (CD). a) Young mountain belts. i) Continental-continental systems. ii) Continental-oceanic arcs. iii) Continental rifts. iv) Mountains associated with transpressional and transtensional faults. b) Ancient mountain belts and orogenies. i) Appalachians-Caledonides. ii) Cordillera of western North America. iii) Variscan chain of Europe.3. Plateaus, Great Escarpments and Hotspots (CD).a) Epeirogenically uplifted plateaus.b) Great escarpments.c) Hot spots.4. Mountains on other planets and their moons(DN).a) Mars.b) Venus.c) Mercury. d) Moons.Part III: Landforms and Mechanics of Surface Processes.5. Mountain Weather, Climate and Vegetation (LAO). a) Orographic effects. b) Climatic zones. c) Vegetation types.6. Weathering (DN). a)Cryogenic physical processes. b) Chemical processes. c) Defining rates of weathering. d) Contribution to landscape evolution.7. Alpine permafrost and nivation (DN). a) Distribution, nature and dynamics permafrost. b) Snow accumulation and nivation. c) Role in landscape evolution. d) Applied aspects Tibetan Railroad.8. Mass movement and hillslope evolution (DN). a) Exhumation of rock andjoint formation. b) Creep, Solifluction and gelifluction.c) Shallow slope detachments. d) Snow and rock avalanching. e) Debris flows. f) Translational and rotational failures. g) Long-run out landslides. h) Earthquake generated failures. i) Role of landsliding in landscape evolution.j) Case studies Landslide Hazards in the Himalaya.9. Mountain glaciation (LAO). i) Distribution of mountain glaciers. ii) Glacier types. iii) Glacier dynamics. iv) Sediment transfer and deposition. v) Glacial landsystems, landforms and sediments. vi) Glacial erosion. vii) Timing of glaciation. viii) Role in landscape evolution glacial unloading.10. Hydrology (DN). i) Relationship to climate. ii) Relationship to snow and ice. iii) Characteristics of mountain rivers. iv) Floods (metrological and GLOFs).11. Aeolian Processes and landforms (LAO). i) Mountain and katabatic winds. ii) Dune fields. iii) Loess. iv) Rates of aeolian erosion and sediment transfer.Part IV: Anatomy of Orogens.12. Mountain interiors (CD). i) Belts of crystallinine rocks.ii) Suture zones.iii) Metamorphic core complexes and gneiss domes. iv) Ophilolites.v) Distribution of landforms.13. Intermontane Basins (LAO). i) Types and distribution. ii) Sedimentation. iii) Deformation.14. Hinterlands and Foreland Basins (CD). i) Characteristics, distribution, and age.ii) Processes. iii) Landscape evolution.15. Modeling landscape evolution (LAO). i) Morphotectonics. ii) Hardware models. iii
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9191-3
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés