Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain

The Origin of Mountains (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers, the present mountainous landscapes were created. It also gives evidence that this uplift only occured in the last few million years, a time scale which does not fit the plate tectonics theory.
Another fascinating part of the evidence, shows that mountain uplift correlates very well with climatic change. Mountain building could have been responsible for the onset of the ice age. It certainly resulted in the creation of new environments. Fossil plants and animals are used in places to work out the time of mountain uplift, which in turn helps to explain biogeographical distributions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134638796
• Artikelnr.: 42653936

Autorenporträt

Cliff Ollier is a Visiting Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University and also Emeritus Professor, University of New England. Colin Pain is Assistant Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploitation, Australian Geological Survey Organisation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Simple plateaus and erosional mountains
3. Fault block mountains
4. European mountains
5. Western North America
6. The Andes
7. Asian mountains
8. Mountains with gravity structures
9. Volcanoes and granite mountains
10. Mountains on passive margins
11. Plains and planation surfaces
drainage and climate
12. Problems of mountain tectonics
13. Science and the origin of mountains
References
Index