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Geomorphology

A Systematic Analysis of Late Cenozoic Landforms, Third Edition

 

Arthur L. Bloom

 

Geomorphology is an eclectic subject, drawing from geology, physical geography, soils and atmospheric sciences, civil and environmental engineering, and still other fields. The third edition of Bloom’s outstanding, classroom-tested text reflects the diversity of geomorphology, synthesizing its principles to make them accessible to students and practitioners from all disciplines. Bloom covers all of the major constructional and erosional processes of landform creation and change with separate sections devoted to glaciation and coastal geomorphology. Each set of processes and the resulting landforms are explained in a separate chapter, providing a comprehensive, nonmathematical overview. Profuse examples and illustrations represent landforms from around the world, avoiding the regionalism pervading other texts in the field.

Ritter et al., Process Geomorphology, 4/E

 

$72.95 list, 494 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-354-3

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-354-6

© 1998

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Table of Contents

 

Part I. FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOMORPHOLOGY

1. The Scope of Geomorphology

2. Energy Flow in Geomorphic Systems

Part II. CENOZOIC TECTONISM AND CLIMATES: The Modern Landscape Evolves

3. Cenozoic Tectonism

4. Cenozoic Climate Change

Part III. CONSTRUCTIONAL PROCESSES AND CONSTRUCTIONAL LANDFORMS

5. Tectonic Landforms

6. Volcanoes

Part IV. SUBAERIAL DESTRUCTIONAL (EROSIONAL) PROCESSES AND EROSIONAL LANDFORMS

7. Rock Weathering

8. Karst and Speleology

9. Mass Wasting and Hillslopes

10. The Fluvial Geomorphic System

11. Evolution of the Fluvial System

12. Structural Control of Fluvial Erosion

13. Arid and Savanna Landscapes; Eolian Processes and Landforms

14. Periglacial Geomorphology

15. Landscape Evolution

Part V. GLACIERS AND GLACIATION

16. Glaciers as Landforms: Glaciology

17. Glacial Geomorphology

18. Late Quaternary Climatic Geomorphology

Part VI. COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY

19. Shore-Zone Processes and Landforms

20. Explanatory Description of Coasts