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Introducing Geomorphology: A Guide to Landforms and Processes, 2nd edition

Product code: MPIGM2

Print publication date: 25/11/2021

Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Dunedin, Dunedin Academic Press titles

Type: Book (Paperback)

Binding: Paperback

ISBN: 9781780461038

Author/Edited by: By Adrian Harvey

Weight: 0.41kg

Number of pages: 144

£17.00

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Product Code: MPIGM2

By Adrian Harvey

Published by Dunedin Academic Press.

 

Geomorphology is the study of the earth’s landforms and the processes that made the landscape look the way it does today. What we see when we look at a scenic view is the result of the interplay of the forces that shape the earth’s surface. These operate on many different timescales and involve geological as well as climatic forces. 

Adrian Harvey introduces the varying geomorphological forces and differing timescales which thus combine: from the global, which shape continents and mountain ranges; through the regional, producing hills and river basins; to the local, forming beaches, glaciers and slopes; to those micro scale forces which weather rock faces and produce sediment. Finally, he considers the effect that humans have had on the world’s topography.

 

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1. Introduction to geomorphology;

2. Global-scale geomorphology;

3. Regional-scale geomorphology;

4. Local-scale geomorphology: Process systems and landforms;

5. Timescales and landform evolution;

6. Geomorphology and interactions with society.

Further reading.

Glossary.