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By Kenneth J. Gregory

"Given the sheer scale of the subject into account the following, Professor Gregory does good to condense it into bite-size items for the reader. i like to recommend this article to all undergraduate scholars of actual geography and earth sciences, quite to these of their first and moment years... This ebook is a entire and (crucially) reasonably cheap textual content that might supply scholars with an invaluable resource on geomorphology."

- Lynda York, The Geographical Journal

"I may hugely suggest this to somebody doing geology or geography at collage as a 'go to' booklet for geomorphology and landform."

- Sara Falcone, educating Earth Science

"An very good resource of data for an individual who wishes a well-informed, effortless to exploit reference quantity to introduce them to the attention-grabbing complexities of the earth’s land floor, earlier, current and future."

- Angela Gurnell, Queen Mary, collage of London


This introductory textual content information the land floor of the earth in a readable variety protecting the foremost concerns, key subject matters and sensitivities of the environments/landscape.

Emphasising the foremost principles and their improvement, every one bankruptcy contains case reports and info of influential scientists (not unavoidably geomorphologists) who've contributed to the growth of knowing. supplying a truly transparent rationalization of the certainty completed and of the debates that experience arisen, the e-book is created from 12 chapters in 4 sections:

  • Visualising the land surface explains and explores the composition of the land floor and descriptions the way it has been studied.
  • Dynamics of the land surface considers the dynamics affecting the earth's land floor together with its impacts, techniques and the adjustments that experience occurred.
  • Environments of the land surface appears to appreciate the land floor in significant international areas highlighting transformations among the areas.
  • Management of the land surface is an exam of the present and destiny customers of the administration of the earth's land surface.

With pedagogical good points together with additional analyzing, questions for dialogue and a word list, this unique, vigorous textual content is authored via one of many major specialists within the box and should be center studying for first and moment yr undergraduates on all actual geography courses.

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