Author: M. C. BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Franciscan Geology of Northern California
Author: M. C. BlakeAlluvial Fans
Author: Adrian M. HarveyPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862391895
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Alluvial fans are important sedimentary environments. They trap sediment delivered from mountain source areas, and exert an important control on the delivery of sediment to downstream environments, to axial drainages and to sedimentary basins. They preserve a sensitive record of environmental change within the mountain source areas. Alluvial fan geomorphology and sedimentology reflect not only drainage basin size and geology, but change in response to tectonic, climatic and base-level controls. One of the challenges facing alluvial fan research is to resolve how these gross controls are reflected in alluvial fan dynamics and to apply the results of studies of modern fan processes and Quaternary fans to the understanding of sedimentary sequences in the rock record. This volume includes papers based on up-to-date research, and focuses on three themes: alluvial fan processes, dynamics of Quaternary alluvial fans and fan sedimentary sequences. Linking the papers is an emphasis on the controls of fan geomorphology, sedimentology and dynamics. This provides a basis for integration between geomorphological and sedimentological approaches, and an understanding how fluvial systems respond to tectonic, climatic and base-level changes.
The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906
Author: California. State Earthquake Investigation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province
Author: Bill BonnichsenPublisher: Idaho Geological Survey
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Geologic Field-trip Guide to the Volcanic and Hydrothermal Landscape of the Yellowstone Plateau
Author: Lisa A. MorganPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9781411342040
Category : Calderas
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Earth Features and Their Meaning
Author: William Herbert HobbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Alluvial Fan Flooding
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309185491
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by relatively shallow depths, strike with little if any warning, can travel at extremely high velocities, and can carry a tremendous amount of sediment and debris. Such flooding presents unique problems to federal and state planners in terms of quantifying flood hazards, predicting the magnitude at which those hazards can be expected at a particular location, and devising reliable mitigation strategies. Alluvial Fan Flooding attempts to improve our capability to determine whether areas are subject to alluvial fan flooding and provides a practical perspective on how to make such a determination. The book presents criteria for determining whether an area is subject to flooding and provides examples of applying the definition and criteria to real situations in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and elsewhere. The volume also contains recommendations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is primarily responsible for floodplain mapping, and for state and local decisionmakers involved in flood hazard reduction.
Quaternary and Late Pliocene Geology of the Death Valley Region
Author: Michael N. MachettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Geology of the Point Reyes Peninsula, Marin County, California: No.202
Author: Alan J. GallowayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781018604893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Parks and Plates
Author: Robert J. LilliePublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393924077
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Many of our national parks, monuments, and seashores were established because of their inspiring geological features--from the geysers of Yellowstone to the granite peaks of Yosemite.