Volcanic eruption is the most spectacular of all landscape-forming processes and has a fascination for the scientist and the ordinary man alike. This book gives an up-to-date account of the mechanism of volcanic activity, the products of eruption, and especially the many varieties of landform produced by vulcanism. It also describes the processes of weathering and erosion that attack volcanoes and lava flows and discusses the course of landscape evolution in volcanic areas.  The numerous examples of eruptions, disasters, landforms, and scientific investigations are drawn from all over the world, with some emphasis on volcanic features of Australasia. The distribution of volcanoes is explained in conjunction with modern ideas of the evolution of the earth's crust, and the final chapter discusses methods used to predict eruptions as well as what to do when an eruption occurs.  Volcanoes is aimed at the level of undergraduate geomorphology students, but will be of interest to geologists, geophysicists, and hydrologists. It is also a suitable introduction to volcanoes for schools and for the general reader. Like other volumes of the Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology series, it is well illustrated with diagrams and photographs.  Contents: Volcanic Rocks. Volcanic Eruptions. Types of Volcano. Craters and Calderas. Lava Flows. Pyroclastic Fall Deposits. Pyroclastic Flow Deposits. Intrusive Igneous Rocks. Hydrology and Drainage of Volcanic Areas. Weathering and Erosion. Patterns of Volcanic Distribution. Aspects of Vulcanology.  A volume in the series An Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology.

Volcanoes (An introduction to systematic geomorphology)

Science & Math

Ollier, Cliff

Earth Sciences

MIT Press]

The Origin of Mountains

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Pain, Colin

Social Sciences

Routledge

Regolith is the layer of broken and unconsolidated rock and soil material that forms the surface of the land and covers the bedrock nearly everywhere. An understanding of its properties and structure is very important in topics such as groundwater supply, soil conservation and exploration efforts for economic materials. Regolith, Soils and Landforms is a manual for students, professionals and researchers concerned with the practical examination and analysis of earth surface materials in the field. The text describes many economic aspects of regolith studies, such as the formation of mineral deposits, the importance of weathering zones and how the chemistry of regolith affects human health. Presenting a new view of the geological history of the earth, it places emphasis on the formation and destruction of regolith materials and provides a challenge for established concepts in landscape evolution. It will be an essential text to a wide range of readership including students of Geology, Geomorphology, Geography, Agriculture and Engineering as well as professionals dealing with regolith in their own work.

Regolith, Soils and Landforms

wiley

Weathering (Geomorphology texts)

Longman

Volcanoes

In this rewritten second edition of his work "Volcanoes" (first published in 1969), Professor Ollier provides an account of volcanoes, vulcanism and associated landforms. He analyzes the effects of weathering and erosion on volcanoes and lava flows, and describes the course of landscape evolution in volcanic areas. Drawing on examples and research from all over the world, the author examines the distribution of volcanic activity with reference to contemporary debates about global tectonics. Professor Ollier also discusses the human response to volcanoes, describing methods of prediction and what should be done when a volcano erupts. This book is aimed at undergraduate students of geomorphology and physical geography.

Blackwell Pub.

Blackwell*publishers

The formation of landforms by erosion, earth movements and volcanic activity has traditionally been thought of as geologically recent, often confined to the past few thousand years, the ice age, or perhaps the last two million years.This book extends the time scale back and describes volcanic landscapes 30 and 50 million years old, 40 million year old caves, river patterns that were in existence before the break-up of the proto-continent Gondwanaland and gold deposits that were emplaced at the time of the dinosaurs.Besides minor landforms such as hills, valleys and coasts, major features of the earth are examined, such as continents and oceans, island arcs and mountain ranges. The long history of such topics as continental drift, glaciation and sea level change are related to the evolution of the earth's landscapes.This long-term view of landscape evolution, on the same time scale as continental drift, biological evolution and the formation of ore deposits, leads to a re-assessment of many basic ideas of landscape formation, and of earth science in general.

Ancient Landforms

History

World

Belhaven Pr

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