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This text aims to provide students with the basic understanding of the origin of landforms and the processes that shape them. The book provides the elementary concepts that can be identified, mapped and interpreted of the various forms that constitute the earth's surface. It teaches students to make an assessment of the influence of external geologic processes on human activity. It helps to understand landform history and dynamics, and predicting future changes in morphology of the Earth, its organization and its typology guided by different bioclimatic conditions. Geomorphology is an…mehr

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This text aims to provide students with the basic understanding of the origin of landforms and the processes that shape them. The book provides the elementary concepts that can be identified, mapped and interpreted of the various forms that constitute the earth's surface. It teaches students to make an assessment of the influence of external geologic processes on human activity. It helps to understand landform history and dynamics, and predicting future changes in morphology of the Earth, its organization and its typology guided by different bioclimatic conditions. Geomorphology is an essential topic for students taking a degree in topography, geology engineering and environmental sciences.
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Autorenporträt
Mateo Gutiérrez Elorza, Emeritus Professor of Geomorphology at the Science Faculty of Zaragoza University served as vice-director of the Teruel University College and managed post-doctoral courses in the Sao Paolo University (USP-Brazil) and San Juan University (Argentine). He was the First President of the Spanish Society of Geomorphology (1987-1990), and he is currently Corresponding Academic of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de Madrid (since 1992) and member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas, Quimicas y Naturales de Zaragoza (since 1996). Professor Gutiérrez was member of the IAG Executive Committee (2001-2005) and the main organizer of the 6th International Conference of Geomorphology held in Zaragoza (2005). He has published four books: Geomorfologia de España (1994), Rueda. Madrid; Geomorfología Climática (2001), Omega, Barcelona; Climatic Geomorphology (2005), Elsevier, Amsterdam; and Geomorfología (2008) Pearson/Prentice Hall. He is also the author of more than 200 papers in journals of the SCI and other publications. His scientific work is mainly focused on karst and geomorphology in arid regions.