Geomorphology and geological surface processes

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 1st International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 6-7, 2019.

This book shares essential insights on evaporites and their effects on dams and reservoirs.

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

Harnessing recent developments in computer technology, the latest New Naturalist volume uses the most up-to-date and accurate maps, diagrams and photographs to analyse the diverse landscapes of Scotland.

The movement of sediment and associated pollutants over the landscape and into water bodies is of increasing concern with respect to pollution control, prevention of muddy floods and environmental protection.

This book provides a holistic guide to the construction of numerical models to explain the co-evolution of landforms, soils, vegetation and tectonics.

Coastal Geomorphology, Second Edition is a comprehensive and systematic introduction to this subject and demonstrates the dynamic nature of coastal landforms, providing a background for analytical planning and management strategies in coastal areas that are subject to continuing changes.

The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science.

The coast represents the crossroads between the oceans, land and atmosphere, and all three contribute to the physical and ecological evolution of coastlines.

This Brief analyses and discusses the laterites in the Bengal Basin.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

This book, first published in 1984, deals authoritatively with the nature and management of slope failures and sediment movement and their impact on the hazardous landscape of Los Angeles county.

The proceedings of the 4th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics offers the latest research results concerning quantitative modelling of the interaction of water and sediment and the shapes this interaction makes in rivers, watersheds, estuaries, the coast, the continental shelf and the deep sea.

Written for students and professionals, this revised textbook surveys the mineral industry from geological, environmental and economic perspectives.

This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War.

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The new edition of Arid Zone Geomorphology aims to encapsulate the advances that have been made in recent years in the investigation and explanation of landforms and geomorphological processes in drylands.

Geomorphological Fieldwork addresses a topic that always remains popular within the geosciences and environmental science.

Originally published in 1973.

Originally published in 1984 Nature's Ideological Language examines the common ideological roots of environmental reclamation and nature preservation.

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective.

This book, first published in 1987, contains a collection of papers presented at the 18th Binghamton Symposium, focusing on the topic of catastrophic flooding.

This book, first published in 1986, stems from the 1986 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years.

The first comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to the fast-evolving topic of in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclides, for graduate students and practitioners.

A revised introduction to aeolian geomorphology written by noted experts in the field The new, revised and updated edition of Aeolian Geomorphology offers a concise and highly accessible introduction to the subject.

This book provides a holistic guide to the construction of numerical models to explain the co-evolution of landforms, soils, vegetation and tectonics.

Volume 5 has several objectives.

This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa.

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

There is an affirming transformation, basically in the form of core methodology, in recent geomorphological studies.

The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape.

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.

Originally published in 1972.

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.

A definitive natural history of the Wye Valley covering the geology, geomorphology, conservation and ecological history of this diverse area of outstanding natural beauty.

This book, first published in 1981, provides an excellent introductory analysis to plate tectonic theory.

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

Always awe-inspiring, mountainous areas contain hundreds of millions of years of history, stretching back to the earliest continental landforms.

Originally published in 1965 and with a second edition in 1970.

Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability identifies the major impacts of sea-level rise, presents up-to-date assessments of past sea-level change, thoroughly explores all of the factors contributing to sea-level rise, and explores how sea-level extreme events might change.

This book, first published in 1985, conveys the flavours of geomorphology and the bases of its ideas.

Estuaries occur along many of the world's coastlines irrespective of geologic setting, energy regime, and depositional environment.

This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War.

In the extensive field of earth sciences, with its many subdisciplines, the trans- fer of knowledge is primarily established via personal communication, during meetings, by reading journal articles, or by consulting books.

Antarctica is no longer a 'pole apart'.

A pioneering single-semester undergraduate textbook that balances descriptive and quantitative analysis of geological structures.