2nd edition. — Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999. — 546 p. This book includes both basic material for students without a great deal of background in geology as well as more advanced topics. With coverage that reaches beyond the study of surface processes, it contains discussions on the evolution of landforms and the interpretation of their origin. The Second Edition...
2 nd ed. — Routledge, 2013. — 313 p. An introduction to mountain geomorphology. Historical Mountain Geomorphology Cenozoic evolution of global mountain systems. The evolution of mountains on passive continental margins. The evolution of the mountains of New Zealand. Functional Mountain Geomorphology Processes, rates, and patterns of mountain-belt erosion. Mechanical and...
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012. — 165, X p. — ISBN: 978-3-8484-4745-9. This book illustrates the Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) based technique of Terrain Analysis for land suitability analysis. The various geo-physical processes of terrain attributes are digitally converted into raster formats. The digital raster layers are overlaid in GIS platform...
A proceedings volume of the Fifth Annual Geomorphology Symposia Series, held at Binghamton New York September 26–28, 1974. — Springer Netherlands, 1982. — 398 p. This proceedings volume is the fifth in our continuing publication series that result from the annual geomorphology symposiums conducted in the Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at...
Springer, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN: 3319904269. Quaternary Geomorphology in India: Concepts, Advances and Applications Modes of Formation, Palaeogene to Early Quaternary Palaeogenesis and Geochronology of Laterites in Rajmahal Basalt Traps and Rarh Bengal of Lower Ganga Basin Microstructural Evidence of Palaeo-Coastal Landform from Westernmost Fringe of Lower Ganga–Brahmaputra...
Springer, 2018. — 426 p. — ISBN: 3319582399. This book provides an informative and intriguing overview of the most scenic landscapes of Belgium and Luxembourg. Geodiversity is emphasized, for example the periglacial features in the Hautes Fagnes area, the planation surfaces in the Ardennes and Oesling, and the famous caves of Han/Lesse and Remouchamps. The book’s chief goals...
Springer, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 3319656595. This book provides a unique reference resource not only for geomorphologists, but for all Earth scientists. It shows how landforms vary enormously across Egypt, from high mountains to endless plains, and presents the vast heritage of forms that have developed under different climates. Richly illustrated with numerous plates and...
Springer, 2018. — 289 p. — ISBN: 3319777637. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphology of Georgia. It describes a country characterized by geological, geomorphological and geographical diversities, located in the Caucasus region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. This book is based on the results of several years of geomorphological studies and...
Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Naturwissenschaften. — Frankfurt am Main, 2007. — 241 p. Einführung Problemstellung und Zielsetzung Lage und Abgrenzung des Untersuchungsgebietes Arbeitsmethoden und Vorgehensweise Untersuchungsgebiet Geologisch-geomorphologische und pedologische Grundzüge... Klimatologische und hydrologische Grundzüge Vegetationsgeographische...
Original Article. — Acta Geographica Croatica. — 2001. — V. 35 (2000). — P. 19 — 43. This work deals with the multivariate approach to the relief classification and typology from the applied-geomorphological aspect on the example of North-Western Croatia. The researched area is covered by 4495 samples analyzed according to 9 criterion variables (quantitative, geomorphological...
European Soil Bureau Research Report No.4, EUR 17729 EN. — Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1998. — 546 p. Foreword Table of Contents The European Perspective Meyer-Roux J., Montanarella L. The European Soil Bureau King D., Meyer-Roux J., Thomasson A.J., Vossen P. A proposed European soil information policy Jones R.J.A., Buckley B.,...
W. H. Freeman and Company Publishers, 2014. — 500 p. — ISBN: 1429238607. Written for introductory geomorphology courses, Key Concepts in Geomorphology offers an integrative, applications-centered approach to the study of the Earth’s dynamic surface. Bierman and Montgomery draw from the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics to help students get a basic...
SAGE Publications Ltd., 2010. — 348 p. Visualizing the land surface explains and explores the composition of the land surface and outlines how it has been studied. Dynamics of the land surface considers the dynamics affecting the earth’s land surface including its influences, processes and the changes that have occurred. Environments of the land surface looks to understand the...
Washington: NAS Press, 2010. — 181 p. — ISBN: 0309140242. This book identifies nine grand challenges in this emerging field of study and proposes four high-priority research initiatives. The book poses questions about how our planet's past can tell us about its future, how landscapes record climate and tectonics, and how Earth surface science can contribute to developing a...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2004. — 448 p. A Counterpoint to biodiversity, geodiversity describes the rocks, sediments, soils, fossils, landforms, and the physical processes that underlie our environment. The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society, as...
Ninth impression. — London: Longmans, Green and Co Ltd., 1969. — 372 p. The Aims and Position of Geomorphology The Davisian Geographical Cycle Weathering The Development of Slopes The Nature of a River Valley The Development of Drainage Systems The Effects of Rocks on Relief Coastal Features Movements of Base Level The Importance of Changes of Climate Desert and Savana...
Ninth impression. — London: Longmans, Green and Co Ltd., 1969. — 372 p. The Aims and Position of Geomorphology The Davisian Geographical Cycle Weathering The Development of Slopes The Nature of a River Valley The Development of Drainage Systems The Effects of Rocks on Relief Coastal Features Movements of Base Level The Importance of Changes of Climate Desert and Savana...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2001. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0631222736. The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes. Provides an overview of...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. — 375 p. — ISBN: 90-481-3054-2. Physical landscapes are one of the most fascinating facets of our Planet, which tell stories about the evolution of the surface of the Earth. This book provides up-to-date information about the geomorphology of the selected ‘classic’ sites from around the world and shows the variety of geomorphological landscapes as...
Cham: Springer, 2017. — 321 p. — (World Geomorphological Landscapes). — ISBN: 3-319-55785-4. This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region. After offering a brief overview of the region’s geologic and tectonic history, as well as its basic climatology, subsequent chapters then discuss each island’s (or island set’s)...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. — 271 p. — (World Geomorphological Landscapes). — ISBN: 94-017-8028-5. The proposed monograph on 'Geomorphological Landscapes of India' will aim to describe and explain in simple words the geomorphological characteristics and the origin of the above-mentioned landforms and landscapes. The proposed monograph will provide the background information...
Springer, 2017. — 556 p. — ISBN: 3319578510. This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to...
Springer, 2017. — 539 p. — ISBN: 3-319-26192-8. The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Italy. Attention is given to landform diversity and landscape evolution through time which has been controlled by very diverse geological conditions and dramatic climate changes that have characterized the Italian peninsula and islands since the end of the last...
New York: Springer-Verlag, 2015. — 356 p. — ISBN: 1493923793. This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with...
2nd edition. — Elsevier, 2013. — 3888 p. — ISBN: 0444536434. The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles, and many of the articles that appeared in the first edition have been updated to reflect...
2nd edition. — Elsevier, 2013. — 3888 p. — ISBN: 0444536434. The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles, and many of the articles that appeared in the first edition have been updated to reflect...
2nd edition. — Elsevier, 2013. — 3888 p. — ISBN: 0444536434. The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles, and many of the articles that appeared in the first edition have been updated to reflect...
Heidelberg: Springer, 2000. — 314 p. — ISBN: 3-662-11834-4. Geomorphological research in the humid to seasonal tropics has primarily concentrated on the most characteristic landform assemblage of this zone, namely that of stepped, largely undissected etchplains, often dotted with inselbergs and cutting across ancient basement rocks. Although the author discusses extensively...
Dordrecht: Springer, 1998. — 747 p. — (Encyclopedia of Earth Science) — ISBN: 1402044960. Geochemistry uses the methods and philosophies of chemistry to explore and understand the Earth from the most elementary levels. The field has moved on from a prehistoric interest in metals, chert and clay, to become a modern science, utilizing sophisticated techniques to understand the...
Ph.D. Thesis. — Ankara: Middle East Technical University, 2010. — 202 p. Terrain as a continuum can be categorized into landform units that exhibit common physiological and morphological characteristics which might serve as a boundary condition for a wide range of application domains. However, heterogeneous views, definitions and applications on landforms yield inconsistent and...
Ph.D. Thesis. — The University of Reading, 1998. — 238 p. The increasing interest in dispersion pollution issues makes it necessary to investigate the airflow developing in urban areas. Knowledge of the airflow within an urban street and in the layer aloft is important for understanding the mixing of pollutants within the street and their ventilation above the roof. The present...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1997. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0632035076. Earth Surface Processes is an introductory text for those studying the dynamics of fluid and sediment transport in the environments, in the context of both present-day patterns as well as the environmental changes decipherable in the geological record. The book is divided into two parts. The first deals with the global-scale...
Heidelberg: Springer, 1985. — 270 p. — (Springer Series in Physical Environment 1) — ISBN: 3642824982. Discussions of "systems" and the "systems approach" tend to fall into one of two categories: the panegyrical and the disparaging. Scholars who praise the systems approach do so in the belief that it is a powerful and precise method of study. Scholars who try to shoot it down...
Heidelberg: Springer, 2004. — 364 p. — ISBN: 3642624186. Motivation and Methods The Antarctic Ice Sheet and its Role in the Global System. Satellite Remote Sensing. Data Analysis Methods Applied in the Antarctic Atlas. The Atlas Atlas Maps. Applications Monitoring Changes in Antarctic Ice Surface Topography: The Example of the Lambert Glacier/Amery Ice Shelf System. Detailed...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973. — 456 p. Drainage Basin Measurements Drainage Basin Characteristics The Measurement of Drainage Basin Processes Drainage Basin Analysis Quantitative evaluation of drainage basin processes Drainage basin form and process Variations in space Changes in time Towards the long-term The prospect References Index
Springer, 2017. — XIX, 435 p. — (World Geomorphological Landscapes) — ISBN: 3319445939. This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West. It outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada’s landscapes, and the nature of the geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity. Three of the most important geomorphological facts related...
London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1964. — 678 p. "Worlds without End" Early Ideas on Erosion and Rock Strata Abraham Werner and the Universal Ocean James Hutton and "Worlds Without End" The Initial Reaction and the Second Appearance of Hutton’s Theory Playfair’s Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth The Wernerian Counter-Offensive, 1802-1820 The First Quantitative Work on...
Reprinted ed. — London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1958. — 330 p. Materials and techniques Relief maps and diagrams Climatic maps and diagrams Economic maps and diagrams Population maps and diagrams Maps and diagrams of settelments
London: Arnold-Heinemann, 1979. — 436 p. Energy, forces, resistances and responses The nature of fluid motion Weathering Mass movements Sub-surface processes Fluvial processes Glacial processes Nival processes Aeolian processes Marine processes Processes and interrelationships, rates and changes References Index
New York: Macmillan, 1948. — 655 p. Definitions and Backgrounds Relief Features of the First Order Relief of the Ocean Bottoms Geomorphic Units Process, Stage, and the Geomorphic Cycle The Peneplain Concept The Normal or Fluvial Geomorphic Cycle on a Coastal Plain. A. Stream and Valley Development The Normal or Fluvial Geomorphig Cycle on a Coastal Plain (cont'd). B. Regional...
London: Edward Arnold Ltd, 1969. — 348 p. Spatial Structures Topological Structures Geometric Structures Evaluation of Structures Structures and Flow Loacation of Networks Structural Change Growth and Transformation
London: Longman, 1974. — 305 p. Despite Professor Tricart’s prolificity as an author of geomorphological texts, this is his first to deal specifically with Structural Geomorphology. The French edition, "Geomorphologie Structurale" published in 1968, forms the first volume of an introductory text "Principes de géomorphologie". The volume opens with an introduction to the text as...
John Wiley & Sons, 1976. — 512 p. Geomorphologv and climate: background The zonal concept Spatial and temporal scales of variation in processes and landforms Climatic data Chemistry of rock weathering: fundamental reactions and controls Chemical reactions Thermodynamics and kinetics: quantification Solids: a simple approach Chemical formulation of weathering reactions Rock...
Stroudsburg: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1973. — 483 p. Environmental Geomorphology and Landscape Conservation by Donald R. Coates is the third volume of a series dealing with a compilation and review of important papers dealing with environmental problems of the nonurban regions. These papers by well-known authors present a well-balanced historical treatment of both the...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939. — 731 p. Rocks and Structures Weathering Underground Water Streams in General Young Streams Mature Streams Alpine Glaciation Continental Glaciation Waves Wind Organisms Coastal Plains Plains and Plateaus Dome Mountains Block Mountains Folded Mountains Complex Mountains Volcanoes Meteor Craters
New York: Methuen, 1982. — 161 p. Acknowledgments Preface Scientific context of geomorphology Implications of recent changes of emphasis in geology Divergence between gcomorphology and certain emphases in geology Geographical characteristics of geomorphology Implications of changes of emphasis in geography Statistics and geography The fourth dimension The nature of...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973. — 456 p. Drainage Basin Measurements Drainage Basin Characteristics The Measurement of Drainage Basin Processes Drainage Basin Analysis Quantitative evaluation of drainage basin processes Drainage basin form and process Variations in space Changes in time Towards the long-term The prospect References Index
Poznań: Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2015. — 278 p. This volume is a contribution to the 4th International Conference on Geomorphometry Geomorphometry 2015: Conference and Workshops Geomorphometry for natural hazards geomodelling Poznań (Poland), June 22-26, 2015. TanDEM-X: A Challenging Radar Mission for Generating a New Earth's Topography Height Accuracy for the First Part of...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2013. — 429 p. — (Coastal Research Library 5) — ISBN: 9400750159. Carbonate rock coasts are found world-wide, from continental shorelines of the Adriatic Sea of Europe to the Yucatan Peninsula of North America, and on tropical islands from Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean, to the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the Bahama Islands in the...