This volume describes mountains from all over the world, with an emphasis on mountain landforms, but also looks at their rocks, structure and age. This leads to a deduction on the mechanism which formed them, causing the authors to reject the pre-conceived and well known hypothesis that plate tectonics and folding creates mountains. The book approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. It illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers...

This volume describes mountains from all over the world, with an emphasis on mountain landforms, but also looks at their rocks, structure and age. This leads to a deduction on the mechanism which formed them, causing the authors to reject the pre-conceived and well known hypothesis that plate tectonics and folding creates mountains. The book approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. It illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers...

Regolith is the layer of broken and unconsolidated rock and soil material that forms the surface of the land and covers the bedrock. An understanding of its properties and structure is very important in topics such as groundwater supply, soil conservation and exploration efforts for economic materials.

More than 100 photographs and hundreds of references, never compiled before, make up this guide's unprecedented coverage of the cratonic areas of southern South America, examining the geomorphology of more than 1m square kilometers of the continent.