Research Catalog

Title

Timescales in geomorphology / edited by R.A. Cullingford, D.A. Davidson, J. Lewin.

Publication

Chichester [England] ; New York : J. Wiley, ©1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cullingford, R. A.
• Davidson, Donald A.
• Lewin, John, 1940-
• British Geomorphological Research Group.

Description

ix, 360 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• From 2 million years ago
• Geomorphology
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Quaternary
• geomorphology
• Geology, Stratigraphic
• Quaternary Geologic Period
• GEOMORPHOLOGY
• TIME MEASUREMENT
• Geomorphology > Methodology
• Geological time
• Géomorphologie

Note

• "A publication of the British Geomorphological Research Group."
• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Credits (note)

• "A publication of the British Geomorphological Research Group"--At head of title.

Contents

Available and appropriate timescales in goemorphology / John Lewin -- Records of recent geomorphological events / Michael Church -- Hillslope process and deposits in forested areas of Luxembourg / A.C. Imeson, F.J.P.M. Kwadd and H.J. Mucher -- Channel plan changes following large floods / Malcolm G. Anderson and Ann Calver -- Pattern changes in a Scottish braided river over 1, 30, and 200 years / A. Werritty and R.I. Ferguson -- The significance of cartographic sources in determining coastal change / Alan P. Carr -- Rates of geomorphological changes in proglacial areas / R.J. Price -- Lichenometry-some recent applications / D.N. Mottershead -- Caesium-137 and lead-210 : a review of the techniques and some applications in geomorphology / S.M. Wise -- Holocene alluvial sequences : problems of dating and correlation / Karl W. Butzer -- Erosion in Greece during the first and second millennia BC / Donald A. Davidson -- Channel changes in a lowland river-catchment over the last 13,000 years / J. Rose [and others] -- Towards a reconstruction of timescales and palaeoenvironments from cave sediment studies / Peter A. Bull -- The dating of landslides in Longdendale, north Derbyshire, using pollen-analytical techniques / J.H. Tallis and R.H. Johnson -- Radiocarbon and palaeoenvironmental evidence for changing rates of erosion at a Flandrian stage site in Scotland / K.J. Edwards and K.M. Rowntree -- Dating the main postglacial shoreline in the Montrose area, Scotland / D.E. Smith [and others] -- Pollen analyses, radiocarbon dates and the deglaciation of Rannoch Moor, Scotland, following the Loch Lomond advance / M.J.C. Walker and J.J. Lowe -- Dating quaternary deposits more than 10,000 years old / J.T. Andrews and G.H. Miller -- Problems in radiocarbon dating the Chelford Interstadial of England / Peter Worsley -- The age and geomorphological context of a Norfolk palaeosol / Allan Straw -- Rates of erosion in the Little Colorado valley, Arizona / R.J. Rice -- Timescales of landform development on tropical shields -- a study from Sierra Leone / Michael F. Thomas.

ISBN

• 0471276006
• 9780471276005

LCCN

79040517

OCLC

• ocm05196706
• 5196706
• SCSB-5011

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library