The History of the Study of Landforms - Volume 3: Historical and Regional Geomorphology, 1890-1950Routledge, 4.10.2003 - 528 sivua This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology. |
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Climatic Changes | 35 |
Eustatic Changes | 67 |
The Davisian Cycle in the USA and Germany | 105 |
The Davisian Cycle in France and Britain | 134 |
Geomorphology Worldwide | 167 |
American Poly cyclic Geomorphology | 211 |
Henri Baulig and Eustatic Planation | 256 |
The SubaerialMarine Compositors | 284 |
German Tectonic Geomorphology | 327 |
Regional Classifications | 379 |
Climatic Geomorphology | 420 |
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Albrecht Penck American Geographers Annales de Geographie Appalachian areas Association baselevel basins Baulig Bulletin century chapter classification climatic changes concept continental coral correlation Cretaceous crust crustal cycle of erosion cyclic Davisian denudation chronology deposits drainage earth Eduard Suess elevation Eocene erosion surfaces erosional eustasy eustatic eustatic theory feet Fenneman figure fluvial folds forms France Geological Society Geological Survey geologists geomorphic geomorphology glacial ideas inselbergs isostasy isostatic Journal of Geology Journal of Science land landforms landscape later lower marine Martonne Miocene morphoclimatic Morphologie mountain movements ocean origin orogenic Paris peneplain periglacial physical geography physiography piedmont Plain planation plate Plateau Pleistocene Pliocene processes profiles Puna de Atacama Quarterly Journal Quaternary range reefs regions relief Ridge river rocks Russian savanna sea level sediments slope Society of America Society of London South southern structure Suess summit tectonic terraces Tertiary tropical uplift valley volume W. M. Davis Walther Penck Wooldridge zone