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Climatic geomorphology /
During the past few decades climatic geomorphology has been substantially enlarged in knowledge, thanks to numerous detailed investigations, the application of a large number of techniques, and the acquisition of abundant absolute dates. The challenge of predicting the effects of the prophesied futu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
�2005.
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| Colección: | Developments in earth surface processes ;
8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Climatic geomorphology
- Glaciers
- Glacial erosion
- Glacial transport and sedimentation
- Fluvioglacial erosion and sedimentation
- Geomorphology applied to glacial regions
- Geomorphology of periglacial
- The periglacial environment
- Periglacial landforms
- Some aspects on applied geomorphology in periglacial regions
- The arid zones
- Weathering processes and resulting forms
- Desert surfaces : pavements, patterned ground, varnishes and crusts
- The action of water in arid regions
- Slopes in arid zones
- The arid region piedmonts : glacis and alluvial fans
- Desert lakes : playa lakes and sebkhas
- Aeolian processes and erosive landforms
- Aeolian accumulations
- Applied geomorphology and arid regions
- The humid tropics : weathering and laterites
- Tropical landforms
- Applied geomorphology in tropical regions
- Environmental change
- Climate change in glacial and periglacial regions
- Climate change in arid and tropical humid regions.