| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 470 pages) : illustrations include color photographs, maps, charts, diagrams, tables |
| Contents |
The creation of Zealandia ; Setting the scene -- Legacy of Gondwana -- Deformation of the Waipounamu erosion surface -- From Gondwana to Pacific Archipelago -- Emergence of New Zealand ; Action along the plate boundary -- Uplift, shearing and the growth of mountains -- Getting into shape -- A spectrum of mountain types -- Basin-and-range landscapes -- Conclusions thus far -- Volcanic landscapes ; Volcanic processes -- Volcanic lakes -- Central volcanic region and Taupo volcanic zone -- Taranaki and Tongariro stratovolcanoes ; Tongariro Volcanic Centre -- Taranaki Volcanic Centre -- Other volcanic landscapes -- Auckland and Northland volcanic fields -- Review -- Wearing it down ; Early emergence and erosion -- Erosion as a brake on uplift -- Denudation and erosion -- Ice in the mountains -- Periglacial activity -- Down to the sea in slips -- The work of rivers -- Erosion vs uplift -- The Texture of relief -- Rivers and valleys : agents of erosion and recorders of landscape history ; River and channel styles -- Braided and meandering habits -- River and valley profiles -- Conclusions -- |
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Rivers and their landscapes ; The Clutha Basin and Central Otago -- Canterbury braided rivers and plains -- The Rangitikei and rivers discharging to Taranaki Bight -- The Buller and rivers of Northwest Nelson -- The Tukituki, Mohaka and other Hawke's Bay Rivers -- The Waikato-Waipa system -- What rivers reveal about landscape processes and history -- Karst, subterranean rivers and caves ; Karst in New Zealand -- Karst processes -- Subterranean drainage -- Vadose processes and landform evolution -- Glaciated karst and caves in marble ; Marble karst in NW Nelson -- Karst in Fiordland -- Karst and paleokarst in Cenozoic limestones ; Northwest South Island -- Western North Island : King country karst -- East Coast : Hawke Bay to Wairarapa -- Baselevel control in karst -- Glaciations and climate change ; The 'Ice Age' and the Quaternary -- Marine isotope stages -- Sea-level variations and ice cap fluctuations -- Ice caps and the bi-polar seesaw -- Astronomical pacing of ice ages -- Exposure age dating -- The Quaternary ice age in New Zealand -- The last glacial maximum in New Zealand -- Climate change through the last glacial cycle -- Warm intervals -- Earlier glaciations -- Paraglacial processes -- |
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Coasts : the mobile interface between land and sea ; Currents, tides and global factors -- Wind and wave environment -- Coastal processes -- Beach process and form -- Delivery, transportation and storage of coastal sediment -- Tidal inlets -- Rocky coasts in plan and profile -- Ups and downs of land and sea -- Inheritance and the coastal landscape -- Living in the landscape ; Natural hazards -- Estimating risk -- Volcanic eruptions -- Earthquakes -- Floods -- Floodplain inundation -- Changing the scene -- Landslides -- Sea-level rise -- Coastal adjustments -- Tsunami -- Risk management and abatement -- Tail-piece |
| Summary |
"New Zealand Landscape: Behind the Scene explores the geomorphology of New Zealand, describing how the landscapes developed and how some of the individual features that make up the scene evolved. It commences at the very beginning with the microcontinent Zealandia breaking away from Gondwana, and follows the evolution of the landmass and its landforms until the present day. It explores the effect of climate change on the islands' landscape and, in particular, the interaction of tectonic and climatic processes as the mountain ranges emerged. The book investigates the origins of many landscape features, including New Zealand's volcanoes and mountains, rivers and fluvial landscapes, glacial fjords and glacial history, karst and caves, and landform evolution at the mobile land-sea interface. New Zealand Landscape concludes with a review of the suite of geophysical hazards that occur in New Zealand and confront people living in the landscape. It considers the risk that these hazards present and the measures sometimes taken to mitigate them."-- Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and indexes |
| Subject |
Geology -- New Zealand
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Landscapes -- New Zealand
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Landscape assessment -- New Zealand
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TRAVEL -- Australia & Oceania.
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Landscape assessment
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Geology
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Ecology
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Landscapes
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
New Zealand -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091493
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New Zealand -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016961030 |
| ISBN |
9780128125656 |
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0128125659 |
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