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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Landforms of the World with Google Earth
    sub title: Understanding our Environment
  name:
    name part: Scheffers, Anja M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: May, Simon M.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kelletat, Dieter H.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 391 p. 513 illus., 344 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book of phenomenal illustrations provides a wealth of visual information on the wide variety of landform processes over all latitudes, climates and geological time-scales. It invites you to observe the surface of planet Earth, to appreciate its astonishing beauty and to explore scientific explanations for the form of our landscapes. 250 full-colour images from Google Earth enable all types of terrestrial environments and landforms to be appreciated at a glance. Images are explained with scales, coordinates, explanatory text and references, making the landform processes active on our globe easy for the reader to comprehend. See the effects of both sudden and slow forming agents such as the impact of a comet or meteorite, and erosion and deposition processes through wind, flowing water, creeping glacier ice, or frost in the ground. Appreciate how landscapes are shaped by processes such as weathering, transport and erosion and how that erosion enables us to look into endogenic processes (those within the Earth´s crust), called tectonics. These images and the processes that they document show that continents are shifting, mountains are uplifting, and ocean bottoms may sink deeper. This collection will appeal to everyone: researchers, students and non-experts alike can take inspiration from these images, which bring the landforms of the world to life. The scientific discipline of geomorphology becomes accessible through the fascinating insights that these clear, well explained images allow.
  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.
  note: by Anja M. Scheffers, Simon M. May, Dieter H. Kelletat.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Earth System Sciences
  classification: GB400-649
  classification: 551.41
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789401797139
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9713-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 150311
    record change date: 20151204180835.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-9713-9