Geomorphological Landscapes of the World - neues Buch

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789048130559
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9048130557
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Herausgeber: Springer-Verlag
375 Seiten
Sprache: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9789048130559

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Autor des Buches: piotr
Titel des Buches: landscape world, landscapes

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Autor/in: Piotr Migon
Titel: Geomorphological Landscapes of the World
Verlag: Springer; Springer Netherland
375 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010-01-22
Dordrecht; NL
Sprache: Englisch
171,19 € (DE)
176,00 € (AT)
195,00 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Geowissenschaften/Geografie; Physische Geographie und Topographie; Verstehen; Delta; Devonian; Insel; Karst; Permafrost; Sedimentation; World Heritage; erosion; geomorphic processes; geomorphology; landforms; landscape; limestone; nature conservation; historical geology; A; Physical Geography; Geology; Earth and Environmental Science; Geologie und die Lithosphäre; BB

The Mackenzie Delta: An Archetypal Permafrost Landscape.- The South Nahanni: High-Latitude Limestone Landscapes.- Channeled Scablands: A Megaflood Landscape.- Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out.- Canyonlands and Arches: Windows on Landscapes in the American Southwest.- Grand Canyon: The Puzzle of the Colorado River.- Parícutin Volcano: To the Other Side.- The Cockpit Country of Jamaica: An Island Within an Island.- The Gran Sabana: The World’s Finest Quartzite Karst?.- Rio de Janeiro: A Metropolis Between Granite-Gneiss Massifs.- Iguazu Falls: A History of Differential Fluvial Incision.- The Southern Patagonian Andes: The Largest Mountain Ice Cap of the Southern Hemisphere.- The Dry Valleys: An Ancient and Cold Desert in Antarctica.- Drakensberg Escarpment: Mountains of Geomorphic Diversity.- Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders.- Spitzkoppe: The World of Granite Landforms.- Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert.- North-Eastern Niger: Sandstone Landscape of the Sahara.- Afar Triangle: Rift Valleys and Volcanoes over Plate Divergence.- Dolomites: The Spectacular Landscape of the ‘Pale Mountains’.- Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland: Sandstone Rock Cities and Fascination in a Romantic Landscape.- The Dorset and East Devon Coast: England’s Geomorphological World Heritage Site.- Fjords of Norway: Complex Origin of a Scenic Landscape.- Iceland: Glaciers and Volcanoes in the North Atlantic.- The Dead Sea Graben: Geomorphology of the Lowest Spot on Earth.- The Western Ghat: The Great Escarpment of India.- The Pokhara Valley: A Product of a Natural Catastrophe.- The Loess Plateau of China: Aeolian Sedimentation and Fluvial Erosion, Both with Superlative Rates.- Sanqingshan: The Incredible Granite Peaks of EasternChina.- Guangxi Karst: The Fenglin and Fengcong Karst of Guilin and Yangshuo.- Mt. Fuji: The Beauty of a Symmetric Stratovolcano.- Mulu: The World’s Most Spectacular Tropical Karst.- Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas): Inselbergs of Central Australia.- Bungle Bungle: Tower Karst in Sandstone.- Wellington’s Tectonic Landscape: Astride a Plate Boundary.- Pacific Atolls: A World Apart.- World Heritage and Geomorphology.
Scientific language will be used Proper referencing will be ensured Scientific rigour will be applied to each individual story Published under the scientific patronage of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG), as a part of the IAG policy to promote geomorphology among other sciences