Process and Form in Geomorphology

Herausgeber: Stoddart, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Process and Form in Geomorphology marks a turning point in geomorphological research. Stoddart has brought together a team of the leading international experts to offer important new studies into the processes, theory and history of landforms, and to present a framework for taking research forward into the new millenium. Illustrated throughout, Process and Form in Geomorphology takes up the challenges of the research agenda set by Richard Chorley and offers fresh insights into his unique contribution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781138983830
• ISBN-10: 1138983837
• Artikelnr.: 44735331

Autorenporträt

David Stoddart

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Richard J. Chorley reformer with a cause
I: On Landforms
2: Drainage Density
3: The Underfit Meander Problem
4: The Trouble with Valleys
5: Subsurface Flow and Subsurface Erosion
6: Tectonics in Geomorphological Models
7: Process and Form in the Erosion of Glaciated Mountains
8: Land-Use Changes and Tropical Stream Hydrology
9: Palaeoclimatology, Climate System Processes and the Geomorphic Record
10: On the Landform History of Chorley's West Somerset
II: On Theory and History
11: James Keill (1708) and the Morphometry of the Microcosm
12: Theory, Measurement and Testing in 'Real' Geomorphology and Physical Geograph
13: Open Systems - Closed Systems
14: Chance and Necessity in Geomorphology
15: A Pluralist, Problem - Focused Geomorphology
16: Carl Sauer
III: Epilogue
17: Richard J. Chorley and Modern Geomorphology