Geomorphology: Themes and TrendsAlistair F. Pitty Geomorphology is a major area of geography in which a great deal of new research developments have recently taken place. This book is an international, authoritative, up-to-date review of all the major areas within geomorphology, assessing recent trends and surveying recent advances to portray the latest state of the art. Many case studies and examples are examined and these are drawn from throughout the world. Geographical methodology and applications are considered and likely future developments are assessed. |
Contents
ASPECTS OF GLACIERS AND THEIR BEDS | 1 |
GLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY TERMINOLOGICAL LEGACY AND DYNAMIC FUTURE | 18 |
ACTIVE AND FOSSIL PERIGLACIAL LANDFORMS | 38 |
GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN COASTLINES A REVIEW | 56 |
GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES SOIL STRUCTURE AND ECOLOGY | 72 |
THEMES IN AUSTRALIAN FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY | 85 |
TROPICAL FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY | 102 |
THEMES IN DESERT GEOMORPHOLOGY | 122 |
KARST FORMS AND PROCESSES | 158 |
VOLCANOES | 179 |
LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT BY TECTONICS AND DENUDATION | 194 |
GEOMORPHIC MEASUREMENTS FROM GROUNDBASED PHOTOGRAPHS | 211 |
CITIES AND GEOMORPHOLOGY | 226 |
RELIEF FORMS ON PLANETS | 245 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 260 |
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alluvial fans Amarillo aquicludes areas arid Australia basal basins bedrock Blue Glacier boreholes camera canyon catchment caves changes channel clast climatic clints coastal crater debris denudation rates denudational processes deposits desert displacement drainage dunes earth enclosed depressions environments erodibility erosion eruption example Figure flood flow fluvial forest fossil Geog Geol geological geomorphic geomorphology glacial glacial geomorphology glacier gradient groundwater Holocene humid ice-wedge increase infiltration Japan karst land landform development landforms landscape Lappland limestone limestone pavements material measured mechanisms meltwater metres mm/yr morphology mountains movement nivation nivation hollows Okstindbreen particles pattern pavements periglacial period permafrost photograph plains planetary Pleistocene polygons Quaternary rainfall rates of denudation reef regions rivers rock run-off sand Schumm sea level sediment sediment yield shale sliding slope soil South Sweden stream studies sub-glacial subsidence surface Sweden tephra tropical tundra uplift valley volcanoes weathering Weichselian x-axis Yoshikawa Younger Dryas zone