Granite Landforms
- 1st Edition - December 2, 2012
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Author: C.R. Twidale
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 6 4 8 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 9 7 6 4 - 9
Granite Landforms provides a systematic, coherent, and comprehensive account and analysis of granite landforms. It examines granite forms and their genesis; the morphology of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteGranite Landforms provides a systematic, coherent, and comprehensive account and analysis of granite landforms. It examines granite forms and their genesis; the morphology of granite exposures; the nature of the materials from which granitic rocks have evolved; and the weathering processes near the Earth’s surface. It also describes major landforms and assemblages, as well as the minor features that have evolved on the major hosts. Organized into four parts encompassing 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of granite, including their characteristics, occurrences, and composition. It then discusses the factors that influence the weathering of granitic rocks and considers boulders and inselbergs, the all-slopes topography in granite, granite plains and rock basins, granite forms associated with steep slopes, and scarp foot depressions. The reader is also introduced to the piedmont angle, grooves or flutings, caves and tafoni, split rocks, cracked blocks and plates, and the role of climate in the development of landforms on granitic outcrops. Geologists, geomorphologists, geology students, and anyone interested in geology will find this book extremely useful.
List of FiguresPrefacePart I Introduction Chapter 1. Landforms developed on granitic rocks Chapter 2. Characteristics of granitic rocks A. Occurrences of granite B. Definition and composition C. Some physical characteristics Chapter 3. Weathering, with Particular reference to granitic rocks A. Physical weathering B. Chemical attack C. Initial breakdown D. Factors influencing the weathering of granitePart II Major Forms and Assemblages Chapter 4. Boulders A. Subsurface exploitation of orthogonal fracture sets B. Historical perspective C. Types of peripheral weathering D. Evacuation of debris E. Disintegration of sheet structure Chapter 5. Inselbergs A. Bornhardt characteristics B. Reasons for positive relief C. Subsurface initiation D. Environments of development E. Scarp retreat F. Evidence and argument G. Domical form H. Other inselbergs Chapter 6. All-slopes topography A. Distribution B. Origins Chapter 7. Granite plains A. Buried and exhumed plains B. Etch plains C. Plains of subaerial (epigene) originPart III Minor Landforms Chapter 8. Forms of gentle slopes A. Rock basins B. Pedestals C. Rock doughnuts D. Runnels or gutters Chapter 9. Forms associated with steep slopes A. Flared slopes B. Fretted basal slopes C. Rock platforms D. Scarp foot depressions E. The piedmont angle F. Grooves or flutings Chapter 10. Caves and tafoni A. Caves associated with corestones and grus B. Caves associated with fractures C. Tafoni Chapter 11. Split and cracked blocks and plates A. Split rocks B. Parted blocks C. Polygonal cracking D. Displaced slabs and blocksPart IV Overview Chapter 12. Discussion and ConclusionsReferences citedIndex
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 2, 2012
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444564887
- eBook ISBN: 9780444597649
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