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Things maps don't tell us : an adventure into map interpretation

Title
Things maps don't tell us : an adventure into map interpretation / by Armin K. Lobeck.
Author
Lobeck, A. K. (Armin Kohl), 1886-1958.
Publication
New York : Macmillan, 1956.

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Description
x, 159 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm
Summary
"Presents a new approach to maps and the study of geography. Professor Lobeck asks and answers many questions as to why continents, islands, rivers, etc. appear as they do. Each geographical puzzle is accompanied by two maps, the first presenting simple clues about the formation of an area and the second revealing the interpretation and explanation." NY Herald Tribune Bk R.
Subject
  • Physical geography
  • Geophysics
  • Map reading
  • physical geography
  • geophysics
  • Maps
Contents
COAST LINES: Distorted coast lines -- Projections and protruberances -- Peninsulas -- Two similar peninsulas -- Some coastal irregularities -- Promontories and points -- Hooked points -- Simple regular coasts -- Coast lines with barrier islands -- Coast lines with interrupted barrier islands -- Embayed or estuarine coasts -- Fiord coasts -- Straits -- ISLANDS: Linear islands and peninsulas -- Linear islands -- Arcuate islands -- Elliptical islands -- Rectangular and straight sided islands -- Zigzag islands -- Island chains or island arcs -- Islands: a double chain -- Oceanic islands -- Isolated islands -- RIVERS: River embayments -- River locations -- Parallel rivers -- Trellis rivers -- Rectangular rivers -- Radial rivers -- Centripetal, center flowing streams -- Ringlike or annular rivers -- Irregularly branching or dendritic streams -- Interrupted or lost rivers -- Water gaps -- Water gaps and wind gaps -- River sources, hot springs and geysers -- Underground rivers and caves -- Waterfalls -- LAKES: Rectangular lakes -- Lake regions of the world -- Some finger lake and related fiord regions of the world -- Some high mountain lakes -- Some dry region lakes -- Lake swarms -- Lake belts -- Unnusual lakes -- Shallow lakes and swamps -- Volcanic region lakes -- Very deep lakes -- Straight sided lakes -- CITIES: Circular cities.
LCCN
56010626
OCLC
  • ocm00490991
  • 490991
  • SCSB-271180
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library