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"Landscape-the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place-is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient landscapes, Wohl introduces this idea of an ever-shifting, ever-transitioning global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of lands...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wohl, Ellen E., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Landscape changes.
Geodynamics.
Environmental geomorphology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Geodynamique.
Paysages > Modifications.
Geomorphologie de l'environnement.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Of Landscapes and Transience""; ""Solid as a Rock?: Geological Transience Out Far and In Deep""; ""Landscapes on the Edge""; ""Balance of Power: Camp Creek, New Zealand""; ""Facing the Subduction Zone: The Lost Coast of Northern California""; ""Himalaya: The Weather Makers""; ""Tortured Landscape: Mount Unzen, Japan""; ""Paradox: Sechura Desert, Western Peru""; ""Hell, 100 Years Later: Katmai National Park, Alaska""; ""Juxtapositions of Violence: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona""; ""Interior Landscapes""
  • ""Buckeye Creek Cave, West Virginia: What Lies Beneath""""Stepped Landscape: Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa""; ""Islands of Rock: Kakadu National Park, Australia""; ""Retreating Ice: Mackenzie River, Canada""; ""Time and the Rivers Flowing""; ""In Transit: La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica""; ""Summerâ€?s Abundance: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska""; ""Survival Strategies: Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska""; ""Differing Scales of Transience: Wulik River, Alaska""; ""Transient Rivers: Bungle Bungle""; ""Amazon I: Flood Pulse of the Worldâ€?s Greatest River""
  • ""Amazon II: VÃrzea of the Rio Napo""""Amazon III: Igapó of the Rio Ampiyacu""; ""Black Water Swamp in Autumn: Congaree National Park, South Carolina""; ""Flowing Rivers: Missouri River, Montana""; ""Negev Desert, Israel""; ""Motion and Fixity: Shortgrass Prairie, Northeastern Colorado""; ""Seven Billion and Counting""; ""Terra Nova: Hawaiâ€?i""; ""Old-Growth Forest Stream, Colorado Front Range""; ""Vernal Pond, Northeastern Ohio""; ""Watershed: Upper Rio Chagres, Panama""; ""Refuge: Coweeta Forest, North Carolina""; ""Altering the Riverâ€?s Pulse: North Fork Poudre River, Colorado""
  • ""Mountain Pine Beetles in the Colorado Front Range""""Living with Transience""; ""Selected References""; ""Index""

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