Description
Book SynopsisSteepland geomorphology concerns landscapes which are either active tectonically or influenced by volcanism. Using case studies, this text illustrates the differing conceptual frameworks that can be used to model and manage such unstable and variable regions.
Table of ContentsPartial table of contents:
On Appraising Classical Models of Landscape Evolution for PassiveContinental Margins (A. Gilchrist).
Debris Transfer and Sedimentary Environments: Alpine GlaciatedAreas (P. Johnson).
Slope Erosion Processes in the Alps (M. Becht).
The Dynamics of Rock Glaciers: Data From Trollaskagi, North Iceland(W. Whalley, et al.).
Stratified Slope Deposits: The Stone-Banked Sheets and Lobes Model(P. Bertran, et al.).
Neotectonics and Large-Scale Gravitational Phenomena in theUmbria-Marche Apennines, Italy (F. Dramis, et al.).
Surface Erosional Environment and Pond Sediment Information (K.Kashiwaya, et al.).
Estimating Long-Term Rockfall Accretion Rates by Lichenometry (B.Luckman & C. Fiske).
Index.
