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By Kenneth J. Gregory,John Lewin

"I can think about no larger publications than Professors Ken Gregory and John Lewin to guide the reader throughout the conceptual foundation of this fascinating science."

- Victor R. Baker, college of Arizona

"A very readable and informative advent to the self-discipline for senior undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers."

- Angela Gurnell, Queen Mary collage of London

"Time will inform, yet this publication might mark a turning aspect within the means scholars and scientists alike understand Earth floor techniques and landforms."

- Jonathan Phillips, college of Kentucky

This pupil targeted e-book offers a close description and research of the main techniques, principles, and hypotheses that tell geomorphology.

Kenneth Gregory and John Lewin clarify the fundamentals of landform technological know-how in 20 thoughts, each one the topic of a substantive, cross-referenced access. They use the belief of the 'geomorphic method' to organise entries in 4 sections, with vast internet assets supplied for each:

  • System Contexts: The platforms technique / Uniformitarianism / Landform / shape, technique and fabrics / Equilibrium / Complexity and Non Linear Dynamical platforms
  • System Functioning: Cycles and cascades / Force-Resistance / Geomorphic paintings / approach shape types
  • System Adjustments: Timescales / Forcings / swap Trajectories / Inheritance and Sensitivity / Anthropocene
  • Drivers for the Future: Geomorphic dangers / Geomorphic Engineering / layout and Prediction

Aligned with the educating literature, this cutting edge textual content offers a fully-functioning studying setting for examine, revision, or even self-directed learn for either undergraduate and postgraduate scholars of geomorphology.

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