River Plains and Sea Coasts

River Plains and Sea Coasts presents Richard Russell’s Hitchcock Lectures of 1965, a landmark synthesis of his decades of research into geomorphology—the study of landforms and the processes that shape them. In these lectures Russell reflects on his intellectual departure from the Davisian model of cyclical erosion, which had dominated early twentieth-century geography, toward a more dynamic, process-oriented approach rooted in fieldwork and earth history. Drawing from his long engagement w...