Fundamentals of Geomorphology

Richard John Huggett

400 pages, parution le 20/11/2002

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Résumé

Fundamentals of Geomorphology presents an engaging and comprehensive introduction to geomorphology, exploring the world's landforms from a systems perspective, with an emphasis on change. The rich variety of landforms found on the Earth's surface are described and discussed, paying attention to the roles of geomorphic processes and historical events in understanding their development and to how particular processes affect humans.
The author considers:

Structure: landforms resulting from, or influenced by the endogenic agencies of tectonic and volcanic processes, geological structures and rock types
Process and Form: landforms fashioned by the exogenic agencies of running water, flowing ice and meltwater, ground ice and frost, the wind and the sea
History: Earth surface history, giving a discussion of the origin of old plains; relict, exhumed and stagnant landscape features; cycles of landscape change, and the evolutionary aspects of landscape change
Contents
Part I Introducing Landforms and Landscapes

1. What is geomorphology?
2. The geomorphic system

Part II Structure

3. Tectonic and structural landforms I
4. Tectonic and structural landforms II

Part III Process and Form

5. Weathering and related landforms
6. Karst landscapes
7. Fluvial landscapes
8. Glacial and glaciofluvial landscapes
9. Periglacial landscapes
10. Aeolian landscapes
11. Coastal landscapes

Part IV History

12. Ancient landscapes and their implications

L'auteur - Richard John Huggett

Richard Huggett is a Reader in Geography at the University of Manchester. He is a physical geographer with broad interests in environmental systems.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Taylor and Francis Books
Auteur(s)	Richard John Huggett
Parution	20/11/2002
Nb. de pages	400
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	880g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415241465
ISBN13	978-0-415-24146-5