The Changing Earth: Rates of Geomorphological Processes - Brossura

Goudie, Andrew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 063119469X ISBN 13: 9780631194699

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1995

Riassunto

Discovering the rates at which landscapes change and the causes of these changes is a key current focus in environmental, ecological, geoscientific and archaeological research. The mechanisms are intricate involving many components - a complex of positive and negative feedback mechanisms, and scales varying from the solar system to global tectonics to the activities of microscopic organisms. In this book, Andrew Goudies draws together the findings of many disparate disciplines (and of his own research) to present a structured account of what is known, and what remains to be discovered, about change and the variable rate of change in the shape and environment of the earth's surface. This is not a research monograph, but a research synthesis presented in terms comprehensible to workers in a wide range of disciplines. The major parts of the book deal with weathering, fluvial processes, slope processes, wind-induced processes, glacial and ice-cap processes, coastal processes and global tectonics. In each case the author stresses the complex links between the processes operating at particular times and places, and examines their impact at different scales of space and time. He also points to the long- and short-term effects of the human impact.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 063119469X
• ISBN 13: 9780631194699
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile