Landscapes and Landforms of France /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Colección: | World Geomorphological Landscapes,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- General introduction to the landscapes and landforms of France
- Paris and the Seine River: antic sites, underground resources, and risks
- The Seine River from Ile de France to Normandy: geomorphological and cultural landscapes of a large meandering valley
- The High Normandy chalk cliffs: an inspiring geomorphosite for painters and novelists
- The Mont-Saint-Michel Bay: an exceptional megatidal environment influenced by natural evolution and man-made modifications
- The “Pink Granite” coast (Northern Brittany)
- Another Loire: the Armorican Loire
- The Arcachon Bay estuary: a “collage” of landscapes
- The volcanic Chaine des Puys: a unique collection of simple and compound monogenetic edifices
- Velay-Mezenc Massif: Harsh Volcanic Highlands around the Loire River Springs
- The Cirque de Navacelles: A Major Geomorphosite in the Grands Causses karstic Region
- The Gavarnie Cirque : a celebrated, natural site straddling the Central Pyrenees
- The Têt river valley: a condensed record of long-term landscape evolution in the Pyrenees
- The Vosgian-Alsatian side of the Rhine Graben: a unique, tectonically controlled and manmade landscape
- Jura Blind Valleys, Springs and Vineyards
- Glacial imprint on the main ridge of the Vosges Mountains
- On the roof of Europe: high altitude morphodynamics in the Mont Blanc Massif
- In the folds of the Earth: French Prealpine geomorphological landscapes
- Morphologies induced by the Messinian Salinity Crisis on karst landscape and caves: example of the Lower Ardèche River (mid Rhône Valley)
- The Lower Valley and the Delta of the Rhône River: Water Landscapes of Nature and History
- Glacial landscapes and Protohistoric cultural héritage of the Mount Bego region, Southern French Alps
- Karst memories above and beneath the sea: Marseilles and its continental shelf during the Cosquer cave occupation
- Calanchi, Basi, Taffonis : Scenic granitic landscapes of Corsica
- Singular coral reef and lagoon geomorphology in French Polynesia
- La Réunion Island: A typical example of a basaltic shield volcano with rapid evolution.