*Any large slide can be called an avalanche
*Submarine land slides, slope slides margin slides and turbidity currents
*Badlands - Linear slopes & divides, knife edge ridges
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Cenozoic Tectonism - Modem Continent Shape
- Sea Floor Spread, layer ocean, Antarctic Ice
Tectonic Orogeny Mt. Bidg = Diastrophism
Orogeny & Converging plates = Himalaya & Urals
Island arcs, trenches, cordillera. Collision hills and Strike/Slip
Island Arcs, - Pacific, Indonesia, Caribbean (Role of Coral in windward locations)
Cordillera - Andes - Narrow range. Narrow valley, Andesitic volcano.
Collision Belt - Fault Block Mts. Argentina Pampas
East Canada Rocky Mt/
Appalachain Mt.
Extensional - Basin & Ridge vs. Sierra Nevada & Colorado Plateau
Rift Valley - East Africa
Strike / Slip - Lebanon - Dead Sea
Uplift - opposed to gravity of geoid
New Zealand & PNG
Space GEodesy - VLBI, SLR, GPS .
Epeirogeny - Continental Formation
Craton Shields - low relief- volcanic
(US intermountain plateaus) - Mantle plumes and uplift below crust
Rates - Vary slow vs fast
10m vs 100m / 100 m yrs
Neotectonism - years & decades of new movement vs. seismotectonics - 6 mm/yr
Appalachian Mts.
Tectonism & Climate
Monsoon - AM to CW climate cause a effect of drainage
Terra Rocha of Tropics
Desertification
Chemozem Soil
Patterned Ground of Tundra
Pingos
Glacial Soils
Caliche of Desert and Adobe