Research Catalog

Title

Process and form in geomorphology / edited by D.R. Stoddart.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stoddart, D. R. (David Ross)

Description

xv, 415 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

With the possible exception of molecular biology, no subject has been so transformed during the past forty years as that of the study of the landforms of the Earth. Central to that endeavour throughout that revolution has been Richard J. Chorley, whose achievement this volume honours. This book is not only about geomorphology: it is about how scientific change is effected and about how crucial people at critical times change the way we see the world. The book is in two parts: The first presents state-of-the-art reports on fluvial, tectonic and climatic geomorphology by leading experts in their fields, all Chorley's colleagues and students. The second brings revisionary views to many aspects of the history of the discipline, on which Chorley is the world authority. Together they present not only new views on the landforms of the world but also incisive insights into how we have made sense of the environment around us from the early eighteenth century to the present day.

Subject

• Geomorphology
• geomorphology
• Geomorfologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Credits (note)

• Festschrift in honour of Richard J. Chorley.

Contents

1. Richard J. Chorley: A Reformer with a Cause / Robert P. Beckinsale -- 2. Drainage Density: Problems of Prediction and Application / Stanley A. Schumm -- 3. The Underfit Meander Problem -- Loose Ends / George H. Dury -- 4. The Trouble with Valleys / Barbara A. Kennedy -- 5. Subsurface Flow and Subsurface Erosion: Further Evidence on Forms and Controls / J.A.A. Jones -- 6. Tectonics in Geomorphological Models / Michael J. Kirkby -- 7. Process and Form in the Erosion of Glaciated Mountains / Ian S. Evans -- 8. Land-Use Changes and Tropical Stream Hydrology: Some Observations from the Upper Mahaweli Basin of Sri Lanka / C.M. Maddumu Bandara -- 9. Palaeoclimatology, Climate System Processes and the Geomorphic Record / Roger G. Barry -- 10. On the Landform History of Chorley's West Somerset / Peter Haggett -- 11. James Keill (1708) and the Morphometry of the Microcosm: Geometric Progression Laws in Arterial Trees / Michael J. Woldenberg.

ISBN

• 0415105277
• 9780415105279

LCCN

95052607

OCLC

• ocm33969075
• 33969075
• SCSB-8807018

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library