Preface ...................................................... viii
1 Tectonic Settings of the Study Regions
1.1 Introduction ............................................ 2
1.2 North America-Pacific Plate Boundary .................... 4
1.3 Australia-Pacific Plate Boundary ....................... 17
1.4 India-Asia Plates Collision ............................ 21
1.5 Aegean Transtension .................................... 23
1.6 Summary ................................................ 25
2 Drainage Basin Evolution and Tectonic Controls
2.1 Hydraulic Coordinates .................................. 28
2.2 Basin Shapes ........................................... 32
2.3 Divide Migration and Stream Capture .................... 36
2.4 Tectonically Translocated Watersheds ................... 50
2.5 Summary ................................................ 55
3 Hillslope Responses to Bedrock Uplift
3.1 Hillslope Model Boundaries ............................. 57
3.2 Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation of the Diablo
Range .................................................. 58
3.3 Sediment Flux and Denudation Rates ..................... 65
3.4 Ridgecrests ............................................ 67
3.5 Canyonlands ............................................ 71
3.6 Cross-Valley Shapes .................................... 81
3.7 Tectonic Signatures in Hillslopes ...................... 87
3.8 Summary ................................................ 95
4 Sediment Yield and Landslides
4.1 Sediment Yield ......................................... 98
4.2 Mass Movements ........................................ 103
4.3 Summary ............................................... 126
5 A Debate About Steady State
5.1 A Century of Conceptual Models ........................ 129
5.2 Hillslope Degradation ................................. 136
5.3 Erosion of Mountain Ranges ............................ 141
5.4 NonSteady-State Erosion of Tectonically Active and
Inactive Fluvial Systems .............................. 150
5.5 Summary ............................................... 152
6 Erosion and Tectonics
6.1 Exfoliation Joints .................................... 156
6.2 Ridgecrest Spreading .................................. 156
6.3 Erosional Controls of Fault Zone Partitioning ......... 161
6.4 Consequences of Erosion Induced by Long-Term Plate
Collision ............................................. 164
6.6 Summary ............................................... 173
7 Fault-Propagation Landscapes
7.1 Normal Faulting ....................................... 176
7.2 Thrust Faulting ....................................... 183
7.3 Transtensional Faulting ............................... 204
7.4 Summary ............................................... 211
8 Tectonic Geomorphology of a Plate Boundary
8.1 Walker Lane-Eastern California Shear Zone ............. 214
8.2 Sierra Nevada Microplate .............................. 225
8.3 Mendocino Triple Junction ............................. 245
8.4 Summary ............................................... 269
Glossary ...................................................... 271
Appendix A .................................................... 281
References Cited .............................................. 283
Index ......................................................... 315
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