Landforms and Landscape Evolution of the Equatorial Margin of Northeast Brazil
More than a simple monograph, the authors present a comprehensive geomorphic overview of a large tropical region where they show how deciphering the long-term landform evolution helps understanding the present set of landscapes and morphodynamic environme
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Jean-Pierre Peulvast François Bétard
Landforms and Landscape Evolution of the Equatorial Margin of Northeast Brazil An Overview
Springer Earth System Sciences Series editors Philippe Blondel, Bath, UK Eric Guilyardi, Paris, France Jorge Rabassa, Ushuaia, Argentina Clive Horwood, Chichester, UK
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Jean-Pierre Peulvast François Bétard •
Landforms and Landscape Evolution of the Equatorial Margin of Northeast Brazil An Overview
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François Bétard Université Paris-Diderot Paris France
Jean-Pierre Peulvast Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris France
ISSN 2197-9596 Springer Earth System Sciences ISBN 978-3-319-18202-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18203-2
ISSN 2197-960X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-18203-2
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Preface
This book is the result of more than 15 years of fieldwork in the Ceará and adjoining states (Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí). Its preparation was undertaken in a period characterized by important progress in the knowledge of the geology and geophysics of Northeast Brazil and, more generally, of passive margins, basement areas, and sedimentary basins. New methods such as thermochronology also contributed to give new insights into topics such as denudation rates and long-term landform evolution models, raising up renewed discussions when confronted to more classical (morphostratigraphic) approaches. Having gathered a wide and original set of geomorphic, morphostructural, pedological, and other data from fieldwork and processing of various types of digital data (digital elevation models, satellite images…), the authors had published their results
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