Research Catalog

Title

Mega-geomorphology / edited for the British Geomorphological Research Group by Rita Gardner and Helen Scoging.

Publication

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.

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Additional Authors

• Gardner, Rita, 1955-
• Scoging, H. M.
• British Geomorphological Research Group.

Description

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Geomorphology > Congresses

Note

• "Twelve of the papers presented at a conference of the British Geomorphological Research Group held in London, 26-30 March 1981"--P. [v].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction / R. Gardner -- Large-scale tectonic denudation and climatic morphogenesis in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador / H.F. Garner -- Antarctic ice sheet : aspects of current configuration and flow / D.J. Drewry -- E pluribus unum : small landforms and the Arctic landscape / H.J. Walker -- Aspects of sea levels, tectonics, and isostasy since the Cretaceous / J. Chappell -- Sea levels / N.-A. Mörner -- Rhythmic shoreline features and their origins / P.D. Komar -- Tentative mega-morphological study of the Sahara / M. Mainguet -- Climate on the desert fringe / F.K. Hare -- The arid earth / A. Goudie -- On the morphology, sediments, and origin of the Loess Plateau of central China / E. Derbyshire -- Climatic change and fluvial response / L. Starkel -- Large-scale land subsidence / D.R. Coates.

ISBN

0198232446 :

LCCN

83002373

OCLC

• 9281972
• ocm09281972

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Columbia University Libraries