Landscape Evolution of Continental-Scale River Systems: A Case Study of North Americas Pre-Pleistocene Bell River Basin

Landscape Evolution of Continental-Scale River Systems: A Case Study of North America's Pre-Pleistocene Bell River Basin provides a detailed case study and complete analysis of this continental-scale North American paleo-river system. The book uses detrital zircon provenance data to link incision of the Grand Canyon to deposition of its erosional products in a giant drowned delta in the Labrador Sea, in the context of sedimentary source-to-sink processes and Plio-Pleistocene continental drainage changes. The case study describes the tectonic changes in this continental-scale paleo-river system, with global implications, and contrasts this system to other continental-scale river systems around the world. This book is a valuable reference for postgraduate students, academics and researchers in the fields of geology, fluvial geomorphology and other geosciences. Readers will be able to use this detailed case study to better understand the implications for how active tectonics of headwaters regions influence delta deposition in continental-scale river systems around the world. Details the landscape evolution of a continental-scale paleo-river system using detrital zircon geochronology with fluvial processesProvides a multidisciplinary case study with applications to other continental-scale river systems around the worldCompares and contrasts the Bell river to the Amazon and uses these examples as analogs to discuss other systems INDICE: Paleo-Bell River ConceptPaleo-Bell River DeltaPaleo-Bell River Detrital-Zircon SourcesPaleo-Bell RIver Captures the Great BasinPaleo-Bell River Captures the Colorado PlateauPaleo-Bell River and the Early Grand CanyonDestruction of the Paleo-Bell RiverPaleo-Bell and Other Transcontinental RiversConclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-443-13304-6
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 188
• Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés