Process and Form in Geomorphology

by David Stoddart

Overview

Process and Form in Geomorphology marks a turning point in geomorphological research. Stoddart has brought together a team of the leading international experts to offer important new studies into the processes, theory and history of landforms, and to present a framework for taking research forward into the new millenium. Illustrated throughout, Process and Form in Geomorphology takes up the challenges of the research agenda set by Richard Chorley and offers fresh insights into his unique contribution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138983830
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Stoddart

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Richard J. Chorley reformer with a cause; I: On Landforms; 2: Drainage Density; 3: The Underfit Meander Problem; 4: The Trouble with Valleys; 5: Subsurface Flow and Subsurface Erosion; 6: Tectonics in Geomorphological Models; 7: Process and Form in the Erosion of Glaciated Mountains; 8: Land-Use Changes and Tropical Stream Hydrology; 9: Palaeoclimatology, Climate System Processes and the Geomorphic Record; 10: On the Landform History of Chorley's West Somerset; II: On Theory and History; 11: James Keill (1708) and the Morphometry of the Microcosm; 12: Theory, Measurement and Testing in ‘Real' Geomorphology and Physical Geograph; 13: Open Systems – Closed Systems; 14: Chance and Necessity in Geomorphology; 15: A Pluralist, Problem - Focused Geomorphology; 16: Carl Sauer; III: Epilogue; 17: Richard J. Chorley and Modern Geomorphology

Editorial Reviews

'...there is much of interest to be enjoyed, and I hope above all that Dick Chorley enjoys the volume and its reflection it has had...' TIBG 1998, Vol 3

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