Quantitative modeling of earth surface processes /
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| Author / Creator: | Pelletier, Jon D. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xi, 295 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7450719 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1. A tour of the fluvial system
- 1.2. A tour of the eolian system
- 1.3. A tour of the glacial system
- 1.4. Conclusions
- Chapter 2. The diffusion equation
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Analytic methods and applications
- 2.3. Numerical techniques and applications
- Exercises
- Chapter 3. Flow routing
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Algorithms
- 3.3. "Cleaning up" US Geological Survey DEMs
- 3.4. Application of flow-routing algorithms to estimate flood hazards
- 3.5. Contaminant transport in channel bed sediments
- Exercises
- Chapter 4. The advection/wave equation
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Analytic methods
- 4.3. Numerical methods
- 4.4. Modeling the fluvial-geomorphic response of the southern Sierra Nevada to uplift
- 4.5. The erosional decay of ancient orogens
- Exercises
- Chapter 5. Flexural isostasy
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Methods for 1D problems
- 5.3. Methods for 2D problems
- 5.4. Modeling of foreland basin geometry
- 5.5. Flexural-isostatic response to glacial erosion in the western US
- Exercises
- Chapter 6. Non-Newtonian flow equations
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Modeling non-Newtonian and perfectly plastic flows
- 6.3. Modeling flows with temperature-dependent viscosity
- 6.4. Modeling of threshold-sliding ice sheets and glaciers over complex 3D topography
- 6.5. Thrust sheet mechanics
- 6.6. Glacial erosion beneath ice sheets
- Exercises
- Chapter 7. Instabilities
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. An introductory example: the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
- 7.3. A simple model for river meandering
- 7.4. Werner's model for eolian dunes
- 7.5. Oscillations in arid alluvial channels
- 7.6. How are drumlins formed?
- 7.7. Spiral troughs on the Martian polar ice caps
- Exercise
- Chapter 8. Stochastic processes
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Time series analysis and fractional Gaussian noises
- 8.3. Langevin equations
- 8.4. Random walks
- 8.5. Unsteady erosion and deposition in eolian environments
- 8.6. Stochastic trees and diffusion-limited aggregation
- 8.7. Estimating total flux based on a statistical distribution of events: dust emission from playas
- 8.8. The frequency-size distribution of landslides
- 8.9. Coherence resonance and the timing of ice ages
- Exercises
- Appendix 1. Codes for solving the diffusion equation
- Appendix 2. Codes for flow routing
- Appendix 3. Codes for solving the advection equation
- Appendix 4. Codes for solving the flexure equation
- Appendix 5. Codes for modeling non-Newtonian flows
- Appendix 6. Codes for modeling instabilities
- Appendix 7. Codes for modeling stochastic processes
- References
- Index
