Research Catalog

Title

Physical geography: selected readings / edited by Fred E. Dohrs and Lawrence M. Sommers.

Publication

New York, Crowell [1967]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dohrs, Fred E.
• Sommers, Lawrence M.

Description

434 pages illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Physical geography
• physical geography

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 433-434.

Contents

I. The earth in space. The birth of worlds / Raymond Arthur Lyttleton -- The worship of the sun / Lucia Harrison -- II. Weather and Climate. The human body / David Blumenstock -- The ice off Iceland and the climates during the last 1200 tears, approximately / I.I. Schell -- The jet stream is the villain / Frank J. Taylor -- The twister / Walter Sullivan -- How to live through a hurricane / Philip Wylie -- Sirocco in the Levant / Tage Sivall -- Climate made to order / H.E. Landsberg -- III. Landforms. The origins of continents / Marshall Kay -- Single land mass? I.S. geologists reexamine continental drift theory / Christian Science Monitor -- Linear topography in the southwestern Palouse, Washington-Oregon / Perice F. Lewis -- Developmental processes in Laterite terrain in Amapá / John H. Vann -- Some aspects of desert morphology / R.F. Peel -- The floodplain and the seashore, a comparative analysis of hazard-zone occupance / Ian Burton and Robert W. Kates -- Man as a geomorphological agent: the example of coal mining / Arthur Doerr and Lee Guernsey -- IV. Biogeography. The importance of biogeography / K.C. Edwards -- The ecosphere / Lamont C. Cole -- V. Vegetation. Forests and human progress / Raphael Zon -- Environment and natural grassland / C.P. Barnes -- The evolution of a wild landscape and its persistence in southern California / Homer Aschmann -- A geographic system of information / A.W. Küchler -- VI. Soils. Grass and the soil -- Charles E. Kellogg -- The basis of fertility / Sterling B. Hendricks and Lytle T. Alexander -- Land-capability classification / A.A. Klingebiel and P.H. Montgomery -- Wastebasket of the earth / William A. Albrecht -- VII. Natural fauna. Self-regulating systems in populations of animals / V.C .Wynne-Edwards -- Problems and potentials of world fisheries / Francis T. Christy, Jr. and Anthony Scott -- VIII. Water resources. The story of water as the story of man / Bernard Frank -- Will there be enough water? / John C. Maxwell -- The nodal water region of North America -- The geography and New York City's water supply: a study of interactions / Anastasia Van Burkalow -- IX. Mineral resources. Geographical factors in the utilization of mineral deposits / Alan M. Bateman -- Fossil fuels in the future / Milton F. Searle -- America still needs foreign mineral supplies / Hans H. Landsberg -- The aluminum industry in Australia / Craig Duncan -- Exploring the diamond coast / William Bascom -- X. Oceanography. Inexhaustible riches from the sea / George A.W. Boehm -- Secrets of the restless tides / C.P. Idyll -- XI. Space. Basic factors in manned space operations / Hubertus Strughold -- XII. The future of physical geography. Studies in physical geography / National Academy of Science.

LCCN

67012700

OCLC

• ocm01976519
• 1976519
• SCSB-479822

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library