Fundamentals of Geomorphology (Routledge Fundamentals of Physical Geography)
Language: English
Pages: 536
ISBN: 0415567750
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This extensively revised, restructured, and updated edition continues to present an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world’s landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the basics of Earth surface forms and processes, while reflecting on the latest developments in the field. Fundamentals of Geomorphology begins with a consideration of the nature of geomorphology, process and form, history, and geomorphic systems, and moves on to discuss:
- structure: structural landforms associated with plate tectonics and those associated with volcanoes, impact craters, and folds, faults, and joints
- process and form: landforms resulting from, or influenced by, the exogenic agencies of weathering, running water, flowing ice and meltwater, ground ice and frost, the wind, and the sea; landforms developed on limestone; and landscape evolution, a discussion of ancient landforms, including palaeosurfaces, stagnant landscape features, and evolutionary aspects of landscape change.
This third edition has been fully updated to include a clearer initial explanation of the nature of geomorphology, of land surface process and form, and of land-surface change over different timescales. The text has been restructured to incorporate information on geomorphic materials and processes at more suitable points in the book. Finally, historical geomorphology has been integrated throughout the text to reflect the importance of history in all aspects of geomorphology.
Fundamentals of Geomorphology provides a stimulating and innovative perspective on the key topics and debates within the field of geomorphology. Written in an accessible and lively manner, it includes guides to further reading, chapter summaries, and an extensive glossary of key terms. The book is also illustrated throughout with over 200 informative diagrams and attractive photographs, all in colour.
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Geomorphology: A Systematic Analysis of Late Cenozoic Landforms, 3rd edn. Upper Saddle River, N.J. and London: Prentice Hall. A sound text with a focus on North America. Kennedy, B. A. (2005) Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740. Oxford: Blackwell. A good read on the relatively recent history of ideas about landscape development. Slaymaker, O. (2009) The future of geomorphology. Geography Compass 3, 329–49. Heavy on philosophy and not a smooth ride for the beginner, but.
Deposition has produced the geological or stratigraphic column (see Appendix 1). The summing of the maximum known sedimentary thickness for each Phanerozoic period produces about 140,000 m of sediment (Holmes 1965, 157). Clastic sediments Clastic or detrital sediments form through rock weathering and erosion. Weathering attacks rocks chemically and physically and so softens, weakens, and breaks them. The process releases fragments or particles of rock, which range from clay to large boulders.
Cartwright, M. S. Stoker, J. P. Turner, and N. White (eds) Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration (Geological Society, London, Special Publication 196), pp. 183–207, reproduced by permission of the Geological Society, London, and Peter Japsen. Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here.
Accumulations of slab material (Fukao et al. 1994). Some slab material may eventually be recycled to create new lithosphere. However, the basalt erupted at midocean ridges shows a few signs of being new material that has not passed through a rock cycle before (Francis 1993, 49). First, it has a remarkably consistent composition, which is difficult to account for by recycling. Second, it emits gases, such as helium, that seem to be arriving at the surface for the first time. Equally, it is not.
Between climatic forcing and geomorphic change, and adopted a rather spongy paradigm involving the concepts of thresholds, feedbacks, complex response, and episodic activity. Over twenty years later, climatic changes induced by changes in the frequency and magnitude of solar radiation receipt – orbital forcing (p. 258) – provide in part the missing theoretical base against which to assess the complex dynamics of landform systems. The discovery was that landscape changes over periods of 1,000 to.