Global climate change and active tectonics: effective tools for teaching and research
Alluvium ; California ; Desert ; Earthquake ; Fault ; Global change ; Model ; Nevada ; Teaching ; Teaching of geography ; Tectonics ; United States of America
The theme of this article is that episodic alluviation creates approximate time lines that are useful in analyses of tectonically deforming landscapes of the Mojave Desert of California. The scope includes a process-response model for fluvial
systems sensitive to major climate changes, evaluation of tectonic landforms of the Emerson fault part of the 1992 surface rupture, influences of late Quaternary faulting on local erosion and deposition. This study increased student awareness
of the relevance of tectonic geomorphology to societal problems such as earthquakes.
Palaeochannels on the North China Plain: relationships between their development and tectonics
Basement ; Carrying capacity ; China ; Fault ; Northern China ; Palaeogeography ; Palaeogeomorphology ; Palaeohydrology ; Plain ; Quaternary ; Stream ; Tectonics ; Vertical movement
Geological structure plays an important role in the development of the palaeochannels in the North China Plain. Mountain uplift, subsidence of the plain, and tectonic movement of the basement since the Cenozoic, have interacted with the flashy
fluvial regime involving high sediment loads and frequent channel changes. The structure of the basement controlled the scale of palaeochannel development, and tectonics have influenced the changes of the ancient river systems.
by intense tectonic and seismic phenomena. In this context the relationships between morphology and tectonics have been investigated in an area of northern Abruzzo extending from the Apennine chain to the Adriatic Sea.
The alluvial gravels in the Sabarmati river basin were deposited in a huge graben bounded by faults related to Cambay basin tectonics. The gravels were accumulated in the depression by an ancient Sabarmati in the form of debris and stream flows
Based on the degree of development, soils of the western Gangetic Plains have been grouped into 5 members of a soil-chronoassociation and the role of tectonism and climatic changes on the development of landforms and soils of the area has been