The History of Geomorphology (eBook, PDF)

From Hutton to Hack: Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 19
Redaktion: Tinkler, K. J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1989, the proceedings of the 19th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, is the first set of essays focused on the history of the subject. The articles analyse the founding precepts of geomorphology, the early pioneers, the formation of a defined discipline, and the present state of the topic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000045741
• Artikelnr.: 59426230

Autorenporträt

K.J. Tinkler

Inhaltsangabe

1. On the Nature of Geo-History, with Reflections on the Historiography of
Geomorphology Gordon L. Herries Davies 2. Les Méconnus: Eighteenth Century
French Pioneers of Geomorphology François Ellenberger 3. Worlds Apart:
Eighteenth Century Writings on Rivers, Lakes and the Terraqueous Globe
Keith Tinkler 4. James Hutton's Role in the History of Geomorphology
Dennis R. Dean 5. The Turning of the Worm: Early Nineteenth Century
Concepts of Soil in Britain - the Development of Ideas and Ideas of
Development, 1834-1843 Brian T. Bunting 6. James Forbes on the Mer de Glace
in 1842: Early Quantification in Geomorphology Frank F. Cunningham 7.
'Extraordinary and terrifying Metamorphosis': On the Seismic Causes of
Slope Instability David Alexander 8. From Colonial science to Scientific
Independence: Australian Reef Geomorphology in the Nineteenth Century D.R.
Stoddart 9. European Science in High Asia: Geomorphology in the Karakoram
Himalaya to 1939 Kenneth Hewitt 10. Eustasy to Plate Tectonics: Unifying
Ideas on the Evolution of the Major Features of the Earth's Surface R.P.
Beckinsale and R.D. Beckinsale 11. Reconstructing the Chronology of Lake
Bonneville: an Historical Review Dorothy Sack 12. Different Aspects of
Polish Geomorphology: Palaeogeographic, Dynamic and Applied Leszek Starkel
13. A Tribute to John Hack by his Friends and Colleagues Compiled by Waite
R. Osterkamp 14. A Perspective on Geomorphology in the Twentieth Century:
Links to the Past and Future John D. Vitek 15. Afterword Mott T. Greene