This state-of-the-art volume reviews both past work and current research, with contributions from internationally recognized experts. The book is organized into fourteen chapters and designed to embrace the full range of terrestrial geochemical sediments.

• An up-to-date and comprehensive survey of research in the field of geochemical sediments and landscapes
  
• Discusses the main duricrusts, including calcrete, laterite and silcrete
  
• Considers deposits precipitated in various springs, lakes, caves and near-coastal environments
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This state-of-the-art volume reviews both past work and current research, with contributions from internationally recognized experts. The book is organized into fourteen chapters and designed to embrace the full range of terrestrial geochemical sediments.

• An up-to-date and comprehensive survey of research in the field of geochemical sediments and landscapes
  
• Discusses the main duricrusts, including calcrete, laterite and silcrete
  
• Considers deposits precipitated in various springs, lakes, caves and near-coastal environments
  ...

Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, have developed greatly over the last decade. This book aims to encapsulate some of these recent advances and focuses on the integration of research that has been conducted by geomorphologists and climatologists on linking climate and land surface changes.
This book is divided into two main parts: Section A incorporates research that has concentrated on short-term variations in climate, whilst...