Jon Pelletier was awarded a Ph.D. in geological sciences from Cornell University in 1997. Following two years at the California Institute of Technology as the O.K. Earl Prize Postdoctoral Scholar, he was made an associate professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona where he teaches geomorphology. Dr Pelletier's research involves mathematical modeling of a wide range of surface processes on Earth and other planets, including the evolution of mountain belts, the transport and deposition of dust in arid environments, and fluvial and glacial processes on Mars.
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1. Preface 2. Introduction 3. The diffusion equation 4. Flow routing 5. The advection/wave equation 6. Flexural isostasy 7. Non-Newtonian flow equations 8. Instabilities 9. Stochastic processes 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.
