Geomorphic Impacts of Earthquakes: Post-Seismic Landscape Evolution summarizes the full range of landscape alterations that can result from large earthquakes, ranging from slope instability and river aggradation to prograded coastlines. The book underpins the consequences of major earthquakes, which are increasing as Earth’s population burgeons and climate and anthropogenic effects are ongoing. Although the damage to society that results directly from the shaking and ground rupture in large earthquakes is well known, the consequential effects of seismicity on the landscape causes earth surface deformations and hazards that are only now being fully understood.
This book will help readers professionally engaged in the Earth sciences be better prepared to assess the full range of natural hazards that threaten particular locations, and to work out how to evaluate their contribution to societal risks.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction: tectonics, earthquakes, landforms and society - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Earthquakes - p. 7 3. Chapter 3. Coseismic ground motion - p. 23 4. Ground failure resulting from earthquake ground motions - p. 41 5. Chapter 5. Earth surface processes and geomorphology - p. 81 6. Chapter 6. Fault trace processes - p. 107 7. Chapter 7. Coseismic landslides and rock avalanches - p. 139 8. Chapter 8. Geomorphic consequences of seismic liquefaction and lateral spreading - p. 171 9. Chapter 9. Fluvial responses to fault offset and uplift, and coseismic sediment input - p. 199 10. Chapter 10. Glacial processes and impacts - p. 243 11. Chapter 11. Postseismic sediment and geochemical fluxes - p. 269 12. Chapter 12. On-fault geomorphic indicators of past earthquakes - p. 295 13. Chapter 13. Geomorphic impacts of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan - p. 355 14. Chapter 14. Case study of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China - p. 383 15. Chapter 15. Case study: 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal - p. 413 16. Chapter 16. Implications for coseismic landslide risk analysis: advances and future directions - p. 441 17. Chapter 17. Summary and future perspectives - p. 467 18. Index - p. 479
Geomorphic Impacts of Earthquakes: Post-Seismic Landscape Evolution summarizes the full range of landscape alterations that can result from large earthquakes, ranging from slope instability and river aggradation to prograded coastlines. The book underpins the consequences of major earthquakes, which are increasing as Earth’s population burgeons and climate and anthropogenic effects are ongoing. Although the damage to society that results directly from the shaking and ground rupture in large earthquakes is well known, the consequential effects of seismicity on the landscape causes earth surface deformations and hazards that are only now being fully understood.
This book will help readers professionally engaged in the Earth sciences be better prepared to assess the full range of natural hazards that threaten particular locations, and to work out how to evaluate their contribution to societal risks.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction: tectonics, earthquakes, landforms and society - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Earthquakes - p. 7 3. Chapter 3. Coseismic ground motion - p. 23 4. Ground failure resulting from earthquake ground motions - p. 41 5. Chapter 5. Earth surface processes and geomorphology - p. 81 6. Chapter 6. Fault trace processes - p. 107 7. Chapter 7. Coseismic landslides and rock avalanches - p. 139 8. Chapter 8. Geomorphic consequences of seismic liquefaction and lateral spreading - p. 171 9. Chapter 9. Fluvial responses to fault offset and uplift, and coseismic sediment input - p. 199 10. Chapter 10. Glacial processes and impacts - p. 243 11. Chapter 11. Postseismic sediment and geochemical fluxes - p. 269 12. Chapter 12. On-fault geomorphic indicators of past earthquakes - p. 295 13. Chapter 13. Geomorphic impacts of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan - p. 355 14. Chapter 14. Case study of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China - p. 383 15. Chapter 15. Case study: 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal - p. 413 16. Chapter 16. Implications for coseismic landslide risk analysis: advances and future directions - p. 441 17. Chapter 17. Summary and future perspectives - p. 467 18. Index - p. 479
