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Book Summary of Fundamentals of Geomorhology
This extensively revised and updated edition continues to present an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world??`s landforms from a broad systems perspective. It reflects on the latest developments in the field and includes new chapters on geomorphic materials and processes, hillslopes and changing landscapes.
Fundamentals of Geomorphology is an engaging and comprehensive introduction to geomorphology. Starting with a consideration of the nature of geomorphology and the geomorphic system, geomorphic materials and processes, and the quest of process and historical geomorphologists, it moves on to discuss:
??? Structure: landforms resulting from, or influenced by, the endogenic agencies of tectonic and volcanic processes, geological structures, and rock types.
??? Process and form: landforms resulting from, or influenced by, the exogenic agencies of weathering, running water, flowing ice and meltwater, ground ice and frost, the wind, and the sea.
??? History: Earth surface history, giving a discussion of Quaternary landforms and ancien isbn
9780415390842
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Pages : 458
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