Book description
This book explores how mountainous landscapes respond to tectonic
deformation. It integrates previously unpublished concepts and ideas
with recent articles about hills and streams. Readers will learn which
landforms change quickly in response to uplift, which parts of the
landscape are slowest to adjust to tectonic perturbations, and which
landform characteristics are most useful for describing tectonically
active and inactive terrains.
Study areas include diverse landscapes and tectonic settings:
seacoasts, soil-mantled hills, and lofty mountains. The humid Southern
Alps of New Zealand change quickly because of rapid uplift and
erosion. The semiarid Panamint Range of southeastern California has
such miniscule annual stream power that tectonic landforms persist for
millions of years.
Tectonically Active Landscapes addresses diverse key topics
about tectonics and topography. It is essential reading for research
geologists and advance-level undergraduate and graduate students in
the earth sciences.
William B. Bull
is an applied geologist educated at Colorado and Stanford Universities.
He worked 12 years for the U. S. Geological Survey as an engineering
geologist and groundwater hydrologist and then changed career goals by
moving to the University of Arizona where he taught geomorphology for 28
years. He continues to study how the hills and streams of mountain
ranges respond to uplift and global climate changes of the past million
years.
