This paper describes a unifying concept of rupturology proceeding from the essential role of geotectonics and morphotectonics with regard to the evolution of the Earth and its crust.
If it is to be a complete science of landforms and landscapes , geomorphology is not appropriately limited geographically to the terrestrial portions of Earth's surface. Various systems of landforms and their generative processes are best understood
in a full planetary context. Geomorphological inquiry is not appropriately limited in its philosophical presumptions to the reductionist views that have so successfully guided much of physics. Holistic thinking, exemplified by some aspects of evolutionary
[b2] Dept. of Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, Etats-Unis
[b1] Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, Etats-Unis
Bohemia ; Czech Republic ; Earth surface processes ; Earthquake ; Fault ; Geomorphogenesis ; Historical period ; Holocene ; Impact study ; Neotectonics ; Research technique
Several weak earthquakes were registered in the historical period in the area Vyšši Brod in South Bohemia. A morphogenetic research has been done to determine possible young tectonic activities in the neighbourhood of the significant Kaplice deep
fault. A special approach was used: monitoring of direct symptoms of young tectonic movements and possible reaction of young movements in selected susceptible forms of the present relief. - (MS)
[b1] Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Prague, Tcheque, Republique
Australia ; Cenozoic ; Erosion rate ; Escarpment ; Geochemistry ; Geomorphogenesis ; Isotope analysis ; Plate tectonics ; Western Australia
It is unclear whether the Darling scarp is a rapidly evolving landform responding to recent tectonic and/or climatic forcing or a more slowly evolving landform. In order to quantify late Quaternary rates of erosion and scarp relief processes, the AA
[b1] School of EarthSciences, Univ., Melbourne, Australie
[b2] Dep. of Geological Sciences, Univ. Canterbury, Christchurch, Nouvelle-Zelande
[b4] Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australie
[b3] Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australie
of sediment transfer and the spatial distribution of rockslides reflect a landscape in which tectonic and geological controls on denudation are more significant than climate.
China ; Climatic change ; Dating ; Glaciation ; Monsoon ; Optically stimulated luminescence ; Palaeo-environment ; Tectonics ; Tibet ; Upper Pleistocene ; Vertical movement ; Yunnan
and tectonic uplift, which influence glaciation in this region. The results suggest that climatic and tectonic factors both play a part in controlling the number and extent of glaciations in western China.
[b3] Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, Purdue Univ., Lafayette, Etats-Unis
[b1] College of Urban and Environment Sciences, Liaoning Normal Univ., Dalian, Chine
[b2] College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking Univ., Beijing, Chine
[a2] College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Univ., Exeter, Royaume-Uni
[a1] School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud
The Gödöllő Hills, a low-relief terrain within the Central Pannonian Basin in Hungary, is characterised by moderate tectonic deformation rates. Although typical tectonic landforms are not clearly recognisable in the study area, this paper succeeded
in discriminating between tectonically controlled landforms and features shaped by fluvial erosion or deflation with no tectonic control. DEM-based morphometric parameters including elevation, slope and surface roughness, enabled the delineation of two NW-SE
[b1] Eötvös Univ, Inst. of Geography and EarthSciences, Dep. of Physical Geography, Budapest, Hongrie
Concept ; Echelle ; Epistémologie ; Géographie ; Géomorphologie ; Géosystème ; Sciences de la Terre
This paper has been stimulated by a debate triggered by the then British Geomorphological Research Group (now the British Society for Geomorphology) about the connections between geomorphology and Earth system science (ESS). The AA. begin
by considering the sociology of science, scientific knowledge and technology, before moving to a consideration of the historical relationship amongst geomorphology, geology and physical geography; and to some perspectives this might offer for the current debate
. Epistemological issues, arising both from the use of systems theory over multiple spatial and temporal scales, and from the demands of contemporary environmental science, are then introduced, and these lead to a conclusion that geomorphology might more
[b1] Dept. of Geography, Univ., Cambridge, Royaume-Uni
[b2] School of Geography, Univ., Nottingham, Royaume-Uni
The AA. chose the major valleys of the Adriatic foothills (central Italy), affected since Late Miocene by a differential tectonic uplift which is still active. In particular, (i) they applied the geostatistical analysis to reconstruct the original
[b1] dep. of Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences, Univ. Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italie
[b2] Dep. of EarthSciences, Sapienza Univ., Rome, Italie
Accretion tectonics in the circum-Pacific regions.
Physical geography
Findings from recent studies in accretion-collision phenomena in the circum-Pacific mobile belts presented at the first international conference on accretion - collision tectonics (21 papers).
The place of geography in the studies on the Man and the Earth system
The system Man and the Earth is investigated by various disciplines starting from the earth and biological sciences upto physics, chemistry, economic, social, agricultural and technical sciences. The geographical sciences should try to keep
Drainage network ; Earth surface processes ; Fluvial capture ; Mass movement ; Model ; New Zealand ; Numerical model ; Precipitation ; Slope ; South Island ; Tectonics
; large-scale stream captures in a strike-slip environment; tectono-climatic mechanisms. Each of the mechanisms produces a distinct morphology and erosion rate distribution. Application to the Southern Alps of New Zealand suggests that tectonic advection
, precipitation gradients and non-uniform tectonic uplift act together to shape the first-order topography of this mountain range.
[b2] Inst. of EarthSciences, Univ., Lausanne, Suisse
[b1] Dept. of EarthSciences, ETH, Zurich, Suisse
[b3] ISTerre, Univ. Joseph Fourier - CNRS, Grenoble, France
Delayed delivery from the sediment factory : modeling the impact of catchment response time to tectonics on sediment flux and fluvio-deltaic stratigraphy
Central Italy ; Delta ; Erosion rate ; Fluvial deposit ; Italy ; Model ; Numerical model ; Precipitation ; Response time ; Sediment transport ; Stratigraphy ; Tectonics ; Watershed
In order to investigate the impact of catchment response time on sediment flux, the AA. integrated a spatially-lumped numerical model PaCMod, with new routines simulating the evolution of landscape morphology and erosion rates under tectonic
and climatic forcing. They subsequently applied the model to reconstruct the sediment flux from a tectonically perturbed catchment in central Italy. Finally, they coupled their model to DeltaSim, a process-response model simulating fluvio-deltaic stratigraphy
, and investigated the impact of catchment response time on stratigraphy, using both synthetic scenarios and a real world system (Fucino Basin, central Italy). Their results demonstrate that the differential response of geomorphic elements to tectonic and climatic
[b2] Dept. of EarthScience and Engineering, Imperial College, London, Royaume-Uni
[b1] Dept. of Geoscience and Engineering, Univ. of Technology, Delft, Pays-Bas
Concept ; Earthsciences ; Environmental conservation ; Globalization ; Nineteenth Century ; Physical geography ; Political ecology ; Society-environment relationship ; Sustainable development ; Twentieth Century
Concept ; Développement durable ; Ecologie politique ; Géographie physique ; Mondialisation ; Protection de l'environnement ; Relation société-environnement ; Sciences de la Terre ; Siècle 19 ; Siècle 20
Although globalization is a term usually restricted to economics and the social sciences, there are aspects of the phenomenon that are intimately linked to the practice and purpose of the physical and environmental sciences and exemplified through
may be seen historically in the global export of western science, including Physical Geography, that underpinned colonial resource exploitation, and which subsequently laid to the foundations for the worldwide conservation movement. Globalization
is also at work in setting contemporary scientific agendas that are focused on larger-scale issues of environment and development and environmental change, particularly in an emergent Earth System Science, and also in Sustainability Science. These global
Physical Geography. At a fundamental level, Physical Geography has always sought to describe and understand the multiple subsystems of the environment and their connections with human activity : it is global and globalizing at its very roots. Globalization
agendas are not simply shared with but also co-produced by the public, politicians and commercial interests, providing both opportunities and challenges for traditional diciplines and traditional disciplinary practices such as Physical Geography.
[b1] School of Geography, Univ., Nottingham, Royaume-Uni
Caucasus ; Digital elevation model ; Drainage network ; Erosion ; Erosion rate ; European part of Russia ; Geomorphometry ; Heavy minerals ; Isotope analysis ; Petrology ; Sedimentology ; Tectonics ; Vertical movement
of tectonically active landscapes, and implies that the controls on channel gradient ultimately dictate the topography and the relief along the Greater Caucasus. The results indicate westward decreasing rates of erosional unroofing from the central part
[b1] Lab. for Provenance Studies, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italie
[b2] CASP, Dept. of EarthSciences, Univ., Cambridge, Royaume-Uni
[b3] London Thermochronological Research Group, Research School of EarthSciences, UCL - Birkbeck College, London, Royaume-Uni