Landforms of the World with Google Earth Understanding our Environment /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9713-9 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I - Introduction
- 1. Shaping the Surface of Earth - Geomorphology in a Nutshell.- Part II - Endogenic Forms and Processes.- 2. Volcanic Landforms.- 3. Igneous Intrusive Landforms.- 4. Tectonic Landforms.- Part III - Exogenic Forms and Processes.- 5. Impacts Craters.- 6. Physical and Chemical Weathering.- 7. Karst landscapes - topographies sculptured by dissolution of rock
- 8. Mass Movements - landforms shaped under the force of gravity
- 9. Forms by Flowing Water (Fluvial Features)
- 10. Planar Forms and Plain Forming Processes: Pediments/Glacis, and Peneplains (with Inselbergs)
- 11. Forms by Wind (or: Aeolian Processes): Deflation and Dunes
- 12. Glacier Ice and its Domain.- 13. Frost and Permafrost as Morphological Agents (or: the Periglacial Domain)
- Part IV - Epilogue - Transformation of the Earth´s Surface by Man (Anthropogenic Forms)
- Index.