Robert P Beckinsale: 2 books
The History of the Study of Landforms: Volume 1 - Geomorphology Before Davis (Routledge Revivals)
or the Development of Geomorphology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important statement...
The History of the Study of Landforms - Volume 3 (Routledge Revivals)
Historical and Regional Geomorphology, 1890-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology.