Can the now widely available topographic data be used to derive past tectonic and climatic conditions (in the multi-million year scale)? Do we know enough about the erosion and transport processes? Does the stochasticity of meteorological and tectonic events reflect in the landscape? How much has life contributed to shape the Earth's surface?
Dear Dr. Yuksel,
I refer to my comment I made to your most recent question " Can classical geomorphological concepts such as peneplanation or retrogressive erosion be quantitatively understood? " The present question is less focused than the previous one. To say in a military jargon, you want an all-in-one device suitable for every purpose, the "Swiss Army Knife in Geosciences" that can be used as an anti-tank weapon and for out-board maintenance of nuclear subs at 2000 m water depth. This helps neither you nor the one who is prepared to help you. To be honest I have worked in and published about structural geology, climate-geomorphology and currently contribute to the discussion on climate change, but I do not know where to dock.
It is not to frustrate or annoy you but to assist you to get your thread go-ahead. The individual topics sound fine.
Kind regards
H.G.Dill
From my previous research with the topographic/old thematic maps, they do consist of some historical geological information , nevertheless I do not think they can be used to derive past tectonic and climatic conditions. But you can perform a reconstruction past data analysis, using some archaeological features, such as lakes and g;laciers ..
Thank you very much for your comments, Dear Prof. Dr. Harald G. Dill. and Dear Dr. Samuel Akande Since geological events occur in millions of years, we cannot observe them in our short life or in our written history of several thousand years. Valuable scientists who explain the geological evolution of the world help biologists to learn more about the diversity of life, biogeography and migration of living things. As a human being, we want to understand by nature, and then we often want to measure. Using this information to our benefit may be the basis of our desire to measure. The science of geology actually tells us a lot. Continental movements, earthquakes are some of them. I think the world history in a way that is in a wide time scale.
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