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Landscape Evolution in the United States: An Introduction to the Geography, Geology, and Natural History

Landscape Evolution in the United States: An Introduction to the Geography, Geology, and Natural History

Dipietro, Joseph A.

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral United StatesGeology

ISBN10: 0123977991
ISBN13: 9780123977991
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: Feb 8 2013
Pages: 480
Weight: 3.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.60 Depth: 10.90
Language: English

Landscape Evolution in the United States is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and application within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology, and climatology of the United States. Landscape evolution refers to the changing terrain of any given area of the Earth's crust over time. Common causes of evolution (or geomorphology--land morphing into a different size or shape over time) are glacial erosion and deposition, volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, sediment transport into rivers, landslides, climate change, and other surface processes. The book is divided into three main parts covering landscape components and how they are affected by climactic, tectonic and ocean systems; varying structural provinces including the Cascadia Volcanic Arc and California Transpressional System; and the formation and collapse of mountain systems.

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