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Landforms of the World with Google Earth Understanding our Environment /
This book of phenomenal illustrations provides a wealth of visual information on the wide variety of landform processes over all latitudes, climates and geological time-scales. It invites you to observe the surface of planet Earth, to appreciate its astonishing beauty and to explore scientific expla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I - Introduction
- 1. Shaping the Surface of Earth - Geomorphology in a Nutshell.- Part II - Endogenic Forms and Processes.- 2. Volcanic Landforms.- 3. Igneous Intrusive Landforms.- 4. Tectonic Landforms.- Part III - Exogenic Forms and Processes.- 5. Impacts Craters.- 6. Physical and Chemical Weathering.- 7. Karst landscapes - topographies sculptured by dissolution of rock
- 8. Mass Movements - landforms shaped under the force of gravity
- 9. Forms by Flowing Water (Fluvial Features)
- 10. Planar Forms and Plain Forming Processes: Pediments/Glacis, and Peneplains (with Inselbergs)
- 11. Forms by Wind (or: Aeolian Processes): Deflation and Dunes
- 12. Glacier Ice and its Domain.- 13. Frost and Permafrost as Morphological Agents (or: the Periglacial Domain)
- Part IV - Epilogue - Transformation of the Earth´s Surface by Man (Anthropogenic Forms)
- Index.