書目名稱 | Gondwana Landscapes in southern South America |
副標(biāo)題 | Argentina, Uruguay a |
編輯 | Jorge Rabassa,Cliff Ollier |
視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/388/387332/387332.mp4 |
概述 | Provides a review of Gondwana Landscapes in southern South America, with over 100 field photographs and over 1,000 references, never compiled before.Offers special chapters in different regions of thi |
叢書名稱 | Springer Earth System Sciences |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | .This book presents extensive and new information on the geomorphology of cratonic areas of southern South America. It includes valuable data relating to recurrent controversies in general geomorphology beyond the boundaries of South America and reveals the great need to integrate many different aspects of geomorphology in regional studies. With the focus on ancient landscapes and especially on planation surfaces it addresses the question of what processes could form such huge features, and how they can be preserved for so long. Many of the papers include maps of planation surfaces or other geomorphic units. The volume brings together an up-to-date, state-of-the-art collection of information on South American geomorphology, and shows beyond doubt that geomorphology is on the same time scale as global tectonics, biological evolution and major climate change. Some of the papers describe ancient geomorphological features of areas that have never been studied or published before, while others describe regions which are totally unknown to the public. The scope of the book extends from tropical latitudes north of the Tropic of Capricorn, south to freezing Patagonia in the “roaring fiftie |
出版日期 | Book 2014 |
關(guān)鍵詞 | Cenozoic Denudation; Cratonic areas of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil; Etchplains; Gondwana Landscapes in S |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7702-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-024-0093-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-7702-6Series ISSN 2197-9596 Series E-ISSN 2197-960X |
issn_series | 2197-9596 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 |