| Description |
336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Australian landforms -- Essay 1. Great and genial figures of the past -- Section A. Tectonic features -- 2. The Earth's structure and major relief -- Essay 2. When the Earth moves: earthquakes -- 3. Plate tectonics -- Essay 3. The north Indian Ocean tsunami, Boxing Day, 2004 -- 4. Volcanoes and volcanic landforms -- Essay 4. The eruption of Mt. Lamington, Papua New Guinea, 1951 -- 5. Folded and faulted surfaces -- Essay 5. Why A-tents are also known as pop-ups -- Section B. Water in the landscape -- 6. Weathering -- Essay 6. Elegant concavities: flared slopes -- 7. Mass movements of material -- Essay 7. Mass movements on the Hummocks Range, South Australia -- 8. How rivers work -- Essay 8. Floods on the lower Murray River and in northwest Queensland -- 9. What rivers achieve: fluvial landforms -- Essay 9. Pediments: regional plains or fringing forms? -- Section C. Structural forms -- 10. Sedimentary terrains -- Essay 10. Regional examples of ridge and valley topography -- 11. Passive fractures: avenues of weathering -- Essay 11. Uluru, an ancient inselberg -- 12. Karst: landforms dependent on high rock solubility -- Essay 12. The Nullarbor Plain: 'a single exposed bedding plant'? -- 13. Pseudostructural landforms -- Essay 13. Meteorite impacts -- Section D. Fluvial landforms -- 14. Models of landscape development -- Essay 14. Descriptive terminology and denudation chronology -- 15. Denudation chronology; and how land surfaces are dated -- Essay 15. A question of survival -- 16. Classification of streams and valleys -- Essay 16. Plaeodrainage: ancient rivers -- Section E. The last two million years -- 17. The Quaternary -- Essay 17. Morphogenetic regions -- 18. Landforms of cold climates -- Essay 18. Older glaciations -- 19. Deserts -- Essay 19. Lunettes or source-bordering dunes -- 20. Coastal forms -- Essay 20. Submaring canyons: erosion by rivers on the ocean floors -- 21. Humans as geomporphogical agents -- Essay 21. Saline soils -- Conclusions -- 22. Overview -- Appendix. Geological background -- Glossary |
| Summary |
"The original version of this Australian landscape book was written in response to appeals for a book that deals with geomorphology7F 14explaining landforms and landscapes - in an Australian context. In this revised edition the authors are still concerned with general theories as they apply to the problems posed by the Australian landscape, which they attempt to interpret in terms of Structure, Process and Time. Recent conceptual advances are taken into account, but our intellectual inheritance is not neglected, and basic ideas, whether of recent derivation or older, are subject to critical appraisal. The Australian landscape book is divided into five major sections. The first four of these are devoted to major factors: Structure, Process and Time. The fifth is devoted to the shortest and most recent geological period, the Quaternary. Within these sections, chapters deal with structural impacts on landform development, the work of water and rivers, of wind, ice and waves, the time factor and the events and resultant forms associated with the climatic aberrations of the last two million years. To each chapter is appended a case study." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Australian landforms : structure, process and time. Adelaide : Gleneagles Pub., 1993 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 309-319 |
| Audience |
For upper secondary school and tertiary students |
| Notes |
System requirements for accompanying disc: Adobe Acrobat reader to access document in PDF format |
| Subject |
Physical geology -- Australia.
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Rocks.
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Geomorphology -- Australia.
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Landforms -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Geography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005919
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| Author |
Campbell, E. M. (Elizabeth Mary), 1940- author
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Twidale, C. R. (Charles Rowland).
Australian landforms : structure, process and time
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| LC no. |
2007367850 |
| ISBN |
1877058327 : |
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