This unique treatment of geomorphology, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive work to enable students to see the subject as a whole. Taking the concepts that run through the subject and cut across its standard divisions, the book summarises the history of intellectual debate in geomorphology and then describes modern developments, both pure and applied.
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 Daviss 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
Rohkem infot Taylor & Francis e-raamatute kohta