Geology and Landscape Evolution
General Principles Applied to the United States
- 3rd Edition - May 26, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Joseph A. DiPietro
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 8 9 6 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 8 9 5 - 7
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Request a sales quoteGeology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States, Third Edition is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and applications within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States. The vast diversity of terrain and landscape across the United States makes this an ideal tool for geoscientists worldwide who research the country’s geological and landscape evolution. The book provides an explanation of how landscape forms and how it evolves. This edition is fully updated with 3 additional sections: Geologic and Tectonic Processes and Provinces; Surface Processes and Provinces; and Compressional Mountain Systems.
Rather than limiting the coverage specifically to tectonics or to the origin and evolution of rocks with little regard for the actual landscape beyond general desert, river, and glacial features, this book concentrates specifically on the origin of the landscape itself, with specific and exhaustive references and examples from across the United States. The book goes on to apply those concepts to specific examples throughout the United States, making it a valuable resource for understanding theoretical geological concepts through a practical lens.
- Presents the complexities of physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States through an interdisciplinary, highly accessible approach
- Offers hundreds of figures, maps and photographs that capture the systematic interaction of land, rock, rivers, glaciers, global wind patterns and climate, including Google Earth images
- Provides a thorough assessment of the logic, rationale, and tools required to understand how to interpret landscape and the geological history of the Earth
- Features exercises that conclude each chapter, aiding in the retention of key concepts
- Includes 3 new sections and 8 additional chapters, as well as major updates to chapters throughout
Students and researchers in geology, geography, tectonics, and environmental science
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Landscape Evolution
- HOW SLOW IS SLOW?
- ELEVATION AND RELIEF
- MAPS, CROSS-SECTIONS, AND SCALE
- GEOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, AND TECTONICS
- COMPONENTS, FORCING AGENTS, AND MECHANISMS
- THE OPPOSING FORCING AGENTS
- RECOGNIZING LANDSCAPE CHANGE
- Questions
- Part I. Components, Forcing Agents, and Mechanisms
- Part I Components, Forcing Agents, and Mechanisms
- Chapter 2. Component: Rock/Sediment Type
- WEATHERING AND EROSION
- THE FOUR ROCK/SEDIMENT TYPES
- TOTAL SILICA CONTENT OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
- THE ROCK CYCLE
- ROCK HARDNESS AND DIFFERENTIAL EROSION
- LANDSCAPE IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
- LANDSCAPE IN CRYSTALLINE ROCKS
- LANDSCAPE IN VOLCANIC ROCKS
- LANDSCAPE IN UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 3. Component: Structural Form
- STRESS and DEFORMATION
- STRIKE AND DIP
- THE EIGHT LANDSCAPE-FORMING STRUCTURAL FORMS
- TOPOGRAPHIC FORM IN RELATION TO STRUCTURAL FORM
- INFLUENCE OF DIP ON LANDSCAPE
- TIMING OF FAULTING
- FAULT REACTIVATION
- Questions
- Chapter 4. Forcing Agent: The Tectonic System
- THE TECTONIC PLATE
- PLATE BOUNDARIES
- MOVEMENT OF TECTONIC PLATES
- CONTINENTAL MARGINS
- TECTONIC ACCRETION AND SUTURE ZONES
- THERMAL PLUMES AND HOT SPOTS
- Questions
- Chapter 5. Forcing Agent: The Climate System
- PRESENT-DAY CLIMATE ZONES
- PROXIMITY TO LARGE WATER BODIES
- GLOBAL WIND PATTERNS
- THE TILT OF THE EARTH’S AXIS
- MOUNTAINS
- Questions
- Chapter 6. Forcing Agent: Isostasy
- TECTONIC VERSES ISOSTATIC UPLIFT
- ADDING AND REMOVING WEIGHT FROM THE EARTH'S SURFACE
- THERMAL CHANGES IN THE LITHOSPHERE
- CRUSTAL THICKENING
- ELEVATION OF CONTINENTS AND OCEAN BASINS
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 7. Forcing Agent: Sea Level Change
- CAUSE Of EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL CHANGE
- MEASURING PRESENT-DAY SEA LEVEL CHANGE
- MEASURING ANCIENT SEA LEVEL CHANGE
- MEASURING ANCIENT OCEAN AND AIR TEMPERATURE
- PALEOCLIMATE, GLACIATION, AND SEA LEVEL CHANGES
- INFLUENCE OF EARTH'S ORBITAL PARAMETERS ON GLACIATION
- VARIATION IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE CLIMATE
- RECENT HISTORY OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 8. Mechanisms That Impart Change to Landscape
- UPLIFT
- SUBSIDENCE
- EROSION
- DEPOSITION
- SIGNIFICANCE OF EXHUMATION
- QUESTIONS
- Part II. Regional Landscape, Geology, and Tectonics
- Part II Regional Landscape, Geology, and Tectonics
- Chapter 9. Physiographic Regions and Provinces
- COASTAL PLAIN
- APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SYSTEM
- INTERIOR PLAINS AND PLATEAUS
- CORDILLERAN MOUNTAIN SYSTEM
- Questions
- Chapter 10. River Systems
- RIVER EROSION AND DEPOSITION
- BASE LEVEL AND GRADED RIVERS
- CHANGES IN DISCHARGE AND SEDIMENT SUPPLY
- BASE LEVEL CHANGES
- KNICKPOINT MIGRATION
- RIVER SYSTEMS
- PRIMARY DRAINAGE DIVIDES
- MISSISSIPPI RIVER SYSTEM
- ATLANTIC SEABOARD AND GULF COAST RIVER SYSTEMS
- ST. LAWRENCE RIVER SYSTEM
- RIO GRANDE AND TEXAS RIVER SYSTEMS
- COLORADO RIVER SYSTEM
- COLUMBIA RIVER SYSTEM
- CALIFORNIA RIVER SYSTEM
- GREAT BASIN RIVER SYSTEM
- HUDSON BAY RIVER SYSTEM
- Questions
- Chapter 11. Glaciated Landscape
- LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS OF CONTINENTAL GLACIATION
- LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS OF ALPINE GLACIATION
- A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS: THE GLACIAL PROVINCES MAP
- THE GLACIAL EROSION BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTH AMERICA
- GLACIAL EROSION IN THE UNITED STATES
- 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
- Chapter 12. Tectonic Setting and Distribution of Rock
- Geologic Time Scale
- Geologic Contacts
- PRE-, SYN-, POST-, AND INTRA-
- TECTONIC STYLE
- MAP OF TECTONIC PLATES
- MAP OF LANDSCAPE-FORMING ROCK TYPES
- SUMMARY OF THE APPALACHIAN CONVERGENT OROGEN
- SUMMARY OF THE CORDILLERAN CONVERGENT OROGEN
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 13. Rock Successions and Tectonic Provinces
- ROCK SUCCESSIONS
- THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY
- TECTONIC PROVINCES
- ROCK SUCCESSIONS/TECTONIC PROVINCES MAP
- Questions
- Chapter 14. Active Geology
- ACTIVE FAULTS IN THE CORDILLERA
- ACTIVE FAULTS EAST OF THE CORDILLERA
- ACTIVE VOLCANISM IN THE CORDILLERA
- PRESENT-DAY VERTICAL LAND MOTION
- RECOGNITION OF ACTIVE FAULTS
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 15. Structural Provinces
- STRUCTURAL PROVINCES MAP
- Questions
- Part III. Landscape and Geology of Structural Provinces
- Part III Landscape and Geology of Structural Provinces
- Chapter 16. Paths to Landscape Evolution
- EROSIONAL LOWERING
- LANDSCAPE AT TOPOGRAPHIC STEADY-STATE
- REJUVENATION
- REINCARNATION
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 17. Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers
- LANDSCAPE TYPES
- THE COASTAL PLAIN
- THE WESTERN MARGIN OF NEARLY FLAT-LYING SEDIMENTARY LAYERS
- THE GREAT PLAINS
- THE WYOMING BASIN
- THE COLORADO PLATEAU
- THE GRAND CANYON
- CENTRAL LOWLANDS
- OZARK PLATEAU
- THE INTERIOR LOW PLATEAUS
- APPALACHIAN PLATEAU
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 18. Crystalline-Cored Mid-Continent Anticlines and Domes
- ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS
- ST. FRANCOIS MOUNTAINS
- WICHITA, ARBUCKLE, AND LLANO STRUCTURAL DOMES
- MIDDLE-SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY
- SUPERIOR UPLAND
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 19. Foreland Deformation Belts
- STRUCTURAL FORM OF FORELAND THRUST FAULTS
- COMPARISON WITH THE CRYSTALLINE-CORED ANTICLINAL STRUCTURE
- CORDILLERAN FORELAND DEFORMATION BELT
- OVERVIEW: APPALACHIAN-OUACHITA FORELAND DEFORMATION BELT
- The Ridge and valley
- OUACHITA MOUNTAINS
- THE MARATHON BASIN
- WATER GAPS IN THE RIDGE AND VALLEY AND OUACHITA MOUNTAINS
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 20. Hinterland Deformation Belts
- OVERVIEW: APPALACHIAN HINTERLAND DEFORMATION BELT
- BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
- PIEDMONT PLATEAU
- THE BLUE RIDGE ESCARPMENT
- THE FALL LINE
- NEW ENGLAND HIGHLANDS
- EROSIONAL HISTORY OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
- RELICT EROSION SURFACES IN THE SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE
- OVERVIEW: CORDILLERAN HINTERLAND DEFORMATION BELT
- SOUTHERN IDAHO
- CENTRAL IDAHO, MONTANA, AND OREGON
- NORTHERN WASHINGTON
- THE GRENVILLE FRONT
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 21. Young Volcanic Rocks of the Cordillera
- MAGMA TYPES AND COMMON VOLCANIC LANDFORMS
- COLUMBIA PLATEAU
- SNAKE RIVER PLAIN
- ORIGIN OF VOLCANISM ON THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU AND HIGH LAVA PLAINS
- MID-TERTIARY IGNIMBRITE FLARE-UP
- ADDITIONAL VOLCANIC FIELDS IN THE CORDILLERA
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 22. Normal Fault Systems
- STRUCTURAL CHARACTER OF NORMAL FAULTS
- THE BASIN AND RANGE
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN BASIN AND RANGE
- THE TETON MOUNTAINS
- WASATCH MOUNTAINS
- RIO GRANDE RIFT SYSTEM
- TRIASSIC LOWLANDS OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 23. Cascade Volcanic Arc System
- THE JUAN DE FUCA PLATE
- THE PACIFIC COASTLINE
- THE OREGON COAST RANGE
- INLAND VALLEYS AND THE FOREARC BASIN
- THE CENTRAL-SOUTHERN CASCADE MOUNTAINS
- THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS
- THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 24. California Strike-Slip System
- LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATED WITH STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS
- THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM
- A RELICT SUBDUCTION ZONE LANDSCAPE
- THE CALIFORNIA COAST RANGES
- THE TRANSVERSE RANGES
- PENINSULAR RANGES
- SALTON SEA
- SIERRA NEVADA
- THE WALKER LANE BELT
- QUESTIONS
- Part IV. Mountain Building
- Part IV Mountain Building
- Chapter 25. Early Theories on the Origin of Mountain Belts
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 26. Keys to the Interpretation of Geological History
- GEOLOGIC FIELD MAPPING
- SEDIMENTARY ROCKS AND EARTH HISTORY
- FOSSILS AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT
- DEPOSITIONAL BASINS
- FLYSCH AND MOLASSE
- FOSSILS AND ACCRETED TERRANES
- UNCONFORMITIES AND CROSS-CUTTING RELATIONSHIPS
- THE BREAKUP UNCONFORMITY
- CRYSTALLINE ROCKS AND EARTH HISTORY
- VOLCANIC ROCKS AND EARTH HISTORY
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
- METAMORPHISM
- PLUTONISM
- VOLCANIC ARC COMPLEXES
- SUBDUCTION COMPLEXES (SUTURE ZONES)
- OPHIOLITE
- COLLISION
- BASEMENT-COVER SEQUENCES
- MOUNTAIN BELT TERMINOLOGY
- ABSOLUTE AGE DATING METHODS
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 27. Growth and Gravitational Collapse of a Convergent Orogen
- FORMATION OF AN OROGENIC MOUNTAIN SYSTEM
- GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF A MOUNTAIN
- LATERAL EXTRUSION
- LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATION
- QUESTIONS
- Chapter 28. The Appalachian Orogen
- SETTING THE STAGE
- PHYSICAL EXTENT
- OROGENIC SUMMARY
- THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS AND THE CENTRAL-SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
- THE TECTONIC MAP
- APPALACHIAN REALMS
- LATE CAMBRIAN-EARLY ORDOVICIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY
- FLYSCH AND MOLASSE BASINS: DATING APPALACHIAN OROGENY
- LAURENTIAN CONTINENTAL REALM
- OUACHITA MOUNTAINS
- TRANSITIONAL LAURENTIAN CONTINENTAL REALM
- THE FRONTAL SUTURE ZONE
- INTERNAL MASSIFS
- IAPETUS OCEANIC REALM
- PERI-GONDWANA MICROCONTINENTAL REALM
- SEQUENCE OF APPALACHIAN COLLISION
- SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL APPALACHIANS
- QUESTIONS
- References
- Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: May 26, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 700
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443158964
- eBook ISBN: 9780443158957
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Joseph A. DiPietro
Joseph A. DiPietro is Professor of Geology at the University of Southern Indiana. His research interests are in the fields of structural geology, tectonics, and metamorphism. He has been on the faculty at University of Southern Indiana since 1991 where he teaches Physical Geology, Landscapes and Geology of North America, Mineralogy, Structural Geology, and Tectonics. Most of his research has been on the tectonics of the Pakistan Himalaya where he mapped along the suture zone that separates India from Asia. He has also worked for the New York State Geological Survey mapping in the Adirondack Mountains and for the Idaho Geological Survey mapping in the Clearwater Mountains and he has conducted mapping and research in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, USARead Geology and Landscape Evolution on ScienceDirect