Geomorphology and geological surface processes

Focusing on glaciation and speleogenesis in the region of New York and New England, this book serves as an example of a karst region that has experienced large-scale continental glaciation.

This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form.

This book, first published in 1973, focuses on non-urban terrain, and presents a uniquely balanced historical treatment of both the land degradation induced by man and his efforts at conservation, preservation and reclamation.

Places the history of geology into the larger context of the history of science in general.

The evolution of the Argentina Continental Margin during the Quaternary and the stratigraphic and morphosedimentary configuration responded to climatic variability, oceanographic changes, glacioeustatic fluctuations and tectono-isostatic processes, which began to impact on the margin during previous geological periods.

Volume 2 of the book 'Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere' is sub-titled Characteristics, Dynamics and Provenance of Sand Dunes in the Northern Hemisphere.

A major update of this classic reference text on earthquakes and faulting with a wealth of new topics and observations.

Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, this introductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvial geomorphology.

This unique treatment of geomorphology, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive work to enable students to see the subject as a whole.

Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape.

This book highlights major problems in the statistical analysis of compositions that have been known for over a century, as well as the corresponding solutions that have been put forward by specialists over the past 30 years.

A new 'Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency.

This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground called permafrost.

This book provides a new synthesis of the published research on the Quaternary of Ireland.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume 'Water, Earth and Man' (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography.

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists.

Modeling of flow and transport in groundwater has become an important focus of scientific research in recent years.

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973.

A state-of-the-art assessment of how geomorphology contributes to the comprehension, mapping and modelling of hazardous Earth surface processes.

Provides the first quantitative overview of global source-to-sink fluxes in cold climate environments for graduate students and researchers.

A new 'Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency.

This book combines new quantitative erosion measurement methods with a geochemical fingerprint and a model-based approach to measure erosion and sediment flux in the Wadi Al-Arab, a Mediterranean to semi-arid catchment in northwest Jordan.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences.

This book focuses on the highly touristed, but surprisingly under-researched Lesser Antilles region.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

A detailed and comprehensive overview of observational and modelling techniques for all climate change, environmental science and glaciology researchers.

This book describes the entire coast and beaches and barrier systems of Australia.

Woraus besteht unsere Erde, und wie funktioniert sie?

The first systematic examination of the role of geomorphological processes in the cycling of carbon through the terrestrial system.

This book discusses Nevada in the context of the history of soil investigations; soil-forming factors; general soil regions; soil geomorphology; taxonomic structure of the soils; taxonomic soil regions; soil-forming processes; benchmark, endemic, rare, and endangered soils; and use of soils.

This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to develop their skills and knowledge in this field.

Few subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards.

A richly illustrated survey of rock microstructures in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, from basic concepts to cutting-edge research.

This book is the only comprehensive summary of natural resources of Oregon and adds to World Soil Book Series state-level collection.

This book, first published in 1982, is a collection of articles aimed at advancing the field of geomorphology.

Geomorphology, the discipline which analyzes the history and nature of the earth's surface, deals with the landforms produced by erosion, weathering, deposition, transport and tectonic processes.

Originally published in 1973.

This textbook explains how mountains are formed and why there are old and young mountains.

This revised edition describes the transformation of the environment and landscape of Western Sorkapp Land based on research data collected by Jagiellonian University scientific expeditions in the period 1980-1986 and in 2008.

The Zambezi river basin is the fourth largest river basin in Africa and drains a total of some 1350.

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on the world's oceans.

This book is unique in its ambitious and comprehensive coverage of earth system land surface characterization, from observation and modeling to data assimilation, including recent developments in theory and techniques, and novel application cases.

An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures.

A comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that should be considered in river management.

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011.

The new Second Edition of Glacial Geology provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology and geomorphology.

A review of five major categories of lithogenetic and morphogenetic terrain types meet the complex terrain criteria: landslides, field photos of slope failures, bedrocks, nonglacial surficial deposits, glacial and alpine-glacial, and periglacial.

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago.