The History of Geomorphology: From Hutton to Hack: Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 19

ISBN-13: 9780367464639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 358 str.

K. J. Tinkler

Opis

This book, first published in 1989, the proceedings of the 19^th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, is the first set of essays focused on the history of the subject. The articles analyse the founding precepts of geomorphology, the early pioneers, the formation of a defined discipline, and the present state of the topic.

Spis treści

1. On the Nature of Geo-History, with Reflections on the Historiography of Geomorphology Gordon L. Herries Davies  2. Les Méconnus: Eighteenth Century French Pioneers of Geomorphology François Ellenberger  3. Worlds Apart: Eighteenth Century Writings on Rivers, Lakes and the Terraqueous Globe Keith Tinkler  4. James Hutton’s Role in the History of Geomorphology Dennis R. Dean  5. The Turning of the Worm: Early Nineteenth Century Concepts of Soil in Britain – the Development of Ideas and Ideas of Development, 1834-1843 Brian T. Bunting  6. James Forbes on the Mer de Glace in 1842: Early Quantification in Geomorphology Frank F. Cunningham  7. ‘Extraordinary and terrifying Metamorphosis’: On the Seismic Causes of Slope Instability David Alexander  8. From Colonial science to Scientific Independence: Australian Reef Geomorphology in the Nineteenth Century D.R. Stoddart  9. European Science in High Asia: Geomorphology in the Karakoram Himalaya to 1939 Kenneth Hewitt  10. Eustasy to Plate Tectonics: Unifying Ideas on the Evolution of the Major Features of the Earth’s Surface R.P. Beckinsale and R.D. Beckinsale  11. Reconstructing the Chronology of Lake Bonneville: an Historical Review Dorothy Sack  12. Different Aspects of Polish Geomorphology: Palaeogeographic, Dynamic and Applied Leszek Starkel  13. A Tribute to John Hack by his Friends and Colleagues Compiled by Waite R. Osterkamp  14. A Perspective on Geomorphology in the Twentieth Century: Links to the Past and Future John D. Vitek  15. Afterword Mott T. Greene

O autorze

K.J. Tinkler