Physical geography : a landscape appreciation
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Physical geography : a landscape appreciation
Prentice Hall, c1996
5th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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