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• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Scheffers, Anja M. (Συγγραφέας), May, Simon M. (Συγγραφέας), Kelletat, Dieter H. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Geography.; Physical geography.; Geomorphology.; Earth System Sciences.

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 expla...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.