Physical geography : a landscape appreciation

著者

• McKnight, Tom L. (Tom Lee)

書誌事項

Physical geography : a landscape appreciation

Tom L. McKnight

Prentice Hall, c1996

5th ed

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This study of physical geography is written from a landscape appreciation point of view, but is balanced by a greater focus on Earth processes that underlie the landscape.

目次

• Introduction to Earth
• portaying Earth
• introduction to the atmosphere
• isolation and temperature
• atmospheric pressure and wind
• atmospheric moisture
• transient atmospheric flows and disturbances
• climatic zones and types
• the hydrosphere
• cycles and patterns in the biosphere
• terrestrial flora and fauna
• soils
• introduction to landform study
• the internal processe
• preliminaries to erosion - weathering and mass wasting
• the fluvial processes
• the topography of arid lands
• coastal processes and terrain
• solution processes and Karst topography
• glacial modification of terrain.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27735704
• ISBN:
  • 0134402154
• LCCN: 95034179
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Upper Saddle River, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 612 p.
• 大きさ: 29 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : GB54.5
  • DC20 : 910/.02
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Physical geography