Landforms of the World with Google Earth Understanding our Environment
This book of phenomenal illustrations provides a wealth of visual information on the wide variety of landform processes over all latitudes, climates and geological time-scales. It invites you to observe the surface of planet Earth, to appreciate its astonishing beauty and to explore scientific expla...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I – Introduction
- 1. Shaping the Surface of Earth – Geomorphology in a Nutshell.- Part II – Endogenic Forms and Processes.- 2. Volcanic Landforms.- 3. Igneous Intrusive Landforms.- 4. Tectonic Landforms.- Part III – Exogenic Forms and Processes.- 5. Impacts Craters.- 6. Physical and Chemical Weathering.- 7. Karst landscapes – topographies sculptured by dissolution of rock
- 8. Mass Movements – landforms shaped under the force of gravity
- 9. Forms by Flowing Water (Fluvial Features)
- 10. Planar Forms and Plain Forming Processes: Pediments/Glacis, and Peneplains (with Inselbergs)
- 11. Forms by Wind (or: Aeolian Processes): Deflation and Dunes
- 12. Glacier Ice and its Domain.- 13. Frost and Permafrost as Morphological Agents (or: the Periglacial Domain)
- Part IV – Epilogue – Transformation of the Earth´s Surface by Man (Anthropogenic Forms)
- Index