Geomorphology: Pure and Applied

ISBN-13: 9780367207434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 246 str.

M. G. Hart

Opis

This unique treatment of geomorphology, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive work to enable students to see the subject as a whole. The book summarises the history of intellectual debate in geomorphology and then describes modern developments, both pure and applied.

Spis treści

1. The History of Geomorphological Debate in the Pre-Davisian Era  2. William Morris Davis: the Geographical Cycle of Erosion  3. Other Applications of the Cycle Concept  4. The Response in Britain to the Cycle: Denudation Chronology  5. The Continental Response to Davis’s Cycle  6. Pleistocene Geomorphology: the Impact of Environmental Change  7. Form  8. Process  9. Materials  10. Methods of Analysis  11. Background to Applied Studies  12. Environmental Hazards  13. Environmental Management  14. Resource Evaluation  15. Pure and Applied Geomorphology in Context

O autorze

M.G. Hart