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|a Goudie, Andrew S.
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|a The Nature of the Environment
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|a 1 online resource (578 p.).
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|a New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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|a The Nature of the Environment: Fourth Edition -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: The Global Framework -- 1: Global Geological Background -- 1.1 The Ancient Earth -- 1.2 Core, Mantle and Crust -- 1.3 The Nature of the Ocean Floors -- 1.4 The Surface of the Land -- 1.5 Earthquakes -- 1.6 The Shape of the Continents -- 1.7 The Question of Plates -- 1.8 Microplates and Exotic Terranes -- 1.9 The Earth's Rock Types -- 1.10 The Subdivisions of the Earth's History -- 1.11 Conclusions -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Points for Review -- FURTHER READING -- 2: Global Climatic Background
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|a 2.1 A Vertical Profile through the Atmosphere -- 2.2 Global Climate -- 2.3 World Patterns of Precipitation -- 2.4 World Patterns of Temperature -- 2.5 The Major Climatic Zones -- 2.6 The Hydrological Cycle -- 2.7 Ocean Currents -- 2.8 Ocean-atmosphere Interactions -- 2.9 Climatic Change -- 2.10 Causes of Long-term Climatic Change -- 2.11 Sea-level Changes -- 2.12 Future Climates -- 2.13 Conclusions -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Points for Review -- FURTHER READING -- 3: The Organic World -- 3.1 Major Vegetation Types -- 3.2 Human Modification of Major Vegetation Types -- 3.3 Floral Realms
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|a 3.4 Faunal Realms -- 3.5 The World's Great Soil Orders -- 3.6 Human Modifications of Soil -- 3.7 Climatic Geomorphology: The Influence of Climate, Soil and Vegetation -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Points for Review -- FURTHER READING -- Part II: Major World Zones -- 4: Cold Environments -- 4.1 Polar Climates -- 4.2 Vegetation and Wildlife -- 4.3 Glacier Types -- 4.4 The Formation of Glacier Ice -- 4.5 How Glaciers Move -- 4.6 Glacial Erosion -- 4.7 Glacial Deposits -- 4.8 Glacier Ice and Sea-level Change -- 4.9 Permafrost -- 4.10 Ground Ice -- 4.11 Thermokarst
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|a 4.12 Ice Segregation and Frost Heaving -- 4.13 Frost Shattering and Soil Formation -- 4.14 Slope Processes, Avalanches and River Regimes -- 4.15 Environmental Problems and Hazards for Tundra Development -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Points for Review -- FURTHER READING -- 5: The Mid-latitudes -- 5.1 The Westerlies -- 5.2 Cyclones and Anticyclones -- 5.3 Air Masses -- 5.4 Cool Temperate Climates -- 5.5 Western Margin Warm Temperate Climates (the Mediterranean Type) -- 5.6 Eastern Margin Warm Temperate Climates -- 5.7 Boreal Forest -- 5.8 Deciduous Forest -- 5.9 Mid-latitude Grassland
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|a 5.10 Mediterranean Evergreen Woodland -- 5.11 Soils of Cool Temperate Climates -- 5.12 Soils of Warm Temperate Climates -- 5.13 The Impact of Climatic Change on the Landscape -- 5.14 Loess Sheets -- 5.15 Dry Valleys and Mis-fit Streams -- 5.16 Tors -- 5.17 Natural Hazards in Western Europe -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Points for Review -- FURTHER READING -- 6: Deserts -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 What Causes Aridity? -- 6.3 Desert Rainfall -- 6.4 Desert Temperatures -- 6.5 Past Climates in Deserts -- 6.6 Desert Vegetation and Animals -- 6.7 Soils and Surface Materials
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|a 6.8 Insolation and Salt Weathering
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