Geomorphology. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Geomorfología.
• Further Information: Note: Mateo Gutiérrez Elorza.
• Other Names: Gutiérrez Elorza, Mateo
• Contents: PREFACE 1 GEOMORPHOLOGY; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 HISTORY OF GEOMORPHOLOGY; Geomorphology prior to the 20th century; Models of landscape evolution; Geomorphology in the first half of the 20th century; Process geomorphology; Reconstruction of geomorphic history: Geochronology; 1.3 GEOMORPHIC SYSTEMS; 1.4 GEOMORPHIC CONCEPTS; 1.5 TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALES; 1.6 APPLIED GEOMORPHOLOGY; 1.7 STRUCTURE OF GEOMORPHOLOGY 2 STRUCTURAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH; 2.3 COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH; 2.4 LITHOSPHERE AND ASTHENOSPHERE; 2.5 ISOSTASY; 2.6 PRECURSORS OF GLOBAL TECTONICS; 2.7 PLATE TECTONICS; 2.8 STRUCTURAL LANDFORMS; 2.9 PSEUDO-STRUCTURAL LANDFORMS 3 TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 GEOMORPHIC MARKERS; Planar geomorphic markers; Linear geomorphic markers; 3.3 DATING METHODS ; Relative dating methods; Absolute dating methods; 3.4 TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY TECHNIQUES; Cartography of paleoseismic regions; Cartography of paleoseismic stratigraphy; Geophysical techniques in paleoseismology; Archeological techniques; Geodetic techniques; Other techniques; 3.5 DEFORMATION OF LANDFORMS; Geomorphic indices of tectonic activity; The fluvial system and tectonic geomorphology; Uplift, subsidence, and earthquakes in fluvial systems; Deformation in colluvial and fluvial deposits; Deformation in littoral and lacustrine environments; 3.6 SEISMIC RISK; 3.7 PREVENTION, MITIGATION, AND WARNING; 3.8 HUMAN-INDUCED EARTHQUAKES 4 VOLCANIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 PLATE TECTONICS AND VOLCANISM; 4.3 MAGMA AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITY; 4.4 TYPES OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY; 4.5 PRINCIPAL TYPES OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; Icelandic eruptions; Hawaiian eruptions; Strombolian eruptions; Vulcanian eruptions; Vesuvian eruptions; Peleean eruptions; Plinian eruptions; 4.6 NUÉES ARDENTES AND PYROCLASTIC FLOWS; 4.7 HYDROVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; Sub-aqueous eruptions; Phreatic eruptions; Sub-glacial eruptions; 4.8 ROCK AVALANCHES AND LAHARS; 4.9 GASEOUS OR HYDROTHERMAL ERUPTIONS; 4.10 LAVA FLOWS; Basalt flows; Acid lava flows; 4.11 PYROCLASTICS; Pyroclastic fall deposits; Pyroclastic surges; Pyroclastic flows; 4.12 VOLCANO MORPHOLOGY; Volcanoes that erupt basic lava; Volcanoes that erupt acidic lava; 4.13 PYROCLASTIC CONES; 4.14 STRATOVOLCANOES; 4.15 CALDERAS; 4.16 VOLCANIC LANDFORMS RESULTING; FROM EROSION; 4.17 VOLCANIC RISK AND PREDICTION 5 WEATHERING AND RESULTING LANDFORMS; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 TYPES OF WEATHERING PROCESSES; Physical weathering; Sheeting; Gelifraction; Insolation weathering; Weathering by wetting and drying; Salt weathering; Biological weathering; Chemical weathering; Weathering of silicates; Degrees of weathering and weathering products; Weathering profile; Weathering depth; Weathering zones; Weathering rates; 5.3 RESULTANT WEATHERING FORMS; 5.4 PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF WEATHERING; Weathering processes and products; Supergene mineral ores and placers; Regolith characteristics: Implications for engineering geology; Weathering of monuments; Weathering of sandstones in various climatic environments 6 KARST GEOMORPHOLOGY; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 CARBONATE DISSOLUTION; 6.3 SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS OF LIMESTONES: KARREN; 6.4 DOLINES/SINKHOLES; Solution sinkholes; Collapse sinkholes; 6.5 POLJES; 6.6 KARST VALLEYS AND SPRINGS; 6.7 ENDOKARST; Principal factors in cave formation; Limestone type and structure; Type and amount of water flow; Physiographic and climatic factors; Some cave types; 6.8 CAVE DEPOSITS; 6.9 TYPES OF KARST AND THE ROLE OF CLIMATE; 6.10 EVAPORITE KARST; Evaporite dissolution; Karst landforms in evaporites; 6.11 KARST RISKS, APPLICATIONS AND USES 7 SLOPES AND MASS MOVEMENT; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 SLOPE SHAPES; 7.3 TYPES OF MASS MOVEMENTS; Falls and rockfalls; Topples; Landslides; Rotational landslides (slumps); Translational landslides; Lateral spreading; Lateral spreading in rocks; Lateral spreading in soils and detritus; Sackung; Flows; Complex mass movements; Rock avalanches; Flow slides; Large gravitational landslides; 7.4 FACTORS THAT CONTROL MASS MOVEMENTS; 7.5 LANDSLIDE RISK: CASE HISTORIES; 7.6 LANDSLIDE PREDICTION AND MITIGATION 8 FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY I; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 BRIEF HISTORY OF FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; 8.3 THE FLUVIAL SYSTEM—CONCEPT OF A HYDROSYSTEM; 8.4 MORPHOMETRY OF A RIVER BASIN; 8.5 HYDRAULICS OF FLUID FLOW; 8.6 SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; 8.7 FLUVIAL EROSION; 8.8 LONGITUDINAL PROFILE, BASE LEVEL, AND STREAM CAPTURE; 8.9 FLUVIAL CHANNEL SYSTEMS; 8.10 STABILITY OF FLUVIAL CHANNELS; 8.11 METAMORPHOSIS OF RIVERS 9 FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY II; 9.1 FLUVIAL SEDIMENTATION; 9.2 FLOODPLAINS; 9.3 ALLUVIAL FANS; Definition, prior work, and terminology; Alluvial fan morphology; Factors that control alluvial fan development; Sedimentary processes; Sediment supply processes; Reworking processes; Dynamics and evolution of alluvial fan development; 9.4 FLUVIAL TERRACES; 9.5 LARGE RIVERS; 9.6 FLOODING; Introduction; Types of floods; Causes and factors that intensify flooding; Magnitude and frequency of flooding; Mapping of flood risk areas; Paleohydrology; 9.7 FLOOD RISK; Flood risk in Spain; Two catastrophic floods: Barranco de Arás (Huesca, 1996) and the Riada del Júcar (Valencia, 1982); 9.8 FLOOD PREVENTION AND MITIGATION 10 EOLIAN GEOMORPHOLOGY; 10.1 EOLIAN PROCESSES; 10.2 ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS OF EOLIAN PARTICLES; 10.3 EOLIAN PARTICLE MOVEMENT; 10.4 TYPES OF EOLIAN TRANSPORT; 10.5 RIPPLES; 10.6 EOLIAN EROSION AND RESULTING LANDFORMS; Ventifacts; Yardangs; Deflation basins; 10.7 EOLIAN ACCUMULATIONS; 10.8 FACTORS CONTROLLING ERG DEVELOPMENT; 10.9 DUNE PROCESSES; 10.10 DUNE CLASSIFICATION; Transverse dunes; Linear dunes; Pyramidal and network dunes; Sand sheets and zibars; Dunes anchored by vegetation; Topographically anchored dunes; 10.11 DESERT DUST; General characteristics; Source area and generating processes; Entrainment, transport and sedimentation; Geomorphic implications; Loess; 10.12 WIND RISK: PROBLEMS AND CONTROL 11 COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; 11.1 INTRODUCTION; 11.2 BRIEF HISTORY OF COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; 11.3 TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALES; 11.4 SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; Causes of sea level changes; Holocene eustatic changes and future predictions; 11.5 WAVES, CURRENTS, AND TIDES; 11.6 CLIFF COASTS AND ROCKY PLATFORMS; 11.7 CORAL REEF COASTS; 11.8 BEACHES, BARRIERS, AND SPITS; 11.9 COASTAL DUNES; 11.10 MUDFLATS, SALT MARSHES, AND MANGROVES; 11.11 ESTUARIES AND DELTAS; 11.12 COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS: USES, MANAGEMENT, AND RISKS; 12 CLIMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 12.1 INTRODUCTION; 12.2 THE BEGINNINGS OF CLIMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 12.3 THE STRUCTURE OF CLIMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 12.4 THE EVOLUTION OF CLIMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 12.5 APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE TRENDS; 12.6 CLIMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY: PROCESSES AND MORPHOCLIMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; 12.7 THE CONCEPT OF ZONATION IN CLIMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; 12.8 PRINCIPAL MORPHOCLIMATIC ZONES 13 GLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY I; 13.1 GLACIERS; Introduction; Present and past extent of glaciers; Mass balance in glaciers: Accumulation and ablation; Transformation of snow into ice; Glacier classification; Thermal classification; Morphological classification; Glacier movement; Glacier structures; 13.2 GLACIAL EROSION; Erosional processes; Types of processes; Landforms produced by glacial erosio
• Publisher Details: Leiden, The Netherlands : CRC Press/Balkema
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 1017 pages), illustrations (some color), maps
• Subjects: 551.41; Geomorphology -- Textbooks; Geomorphology; Electronic books; Textbooks
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203093313; 0203093313
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 883-1001) and index.
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