Process and Form in Geomorphology

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-10527-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoddart, David

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Trockengebiete und Wüsten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Physische Geographie und Topographie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

David Stoddart