Essentials of physical geography
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Essentials of physical geography
Brooks/Cole, Thomson Learning, c1999
6th ed
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Rev. ed. of: Essentials of physical geography / Robert E. Gabler, Robert J. Sager, Daniel L. Wise. 5th ed. c1997
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Containing up-to-date information on physical geography, this work combines a pedagogical programme with illustration. This text emphasises student involvement and interaction in the learning process. An emphasis on environmental hazards includes information on flooding, tornadoes, volcanism and earthquakes, mudflows, desertification and tsunamis.
目次
- The Earth system and physical geography
- representations of planet Earth
- Earth as a planet
- the atmosphere, atmospheric heating, and temperature
- atmospheric pressure and winds
- global circulation patterns
- moisture, condensation and precipitation
- air masses and atmospheric disturbances
- climate and climate change
- low latitude and arid regions
- middle latitude and arid regions
- middle latitude, high latitude and highland regions
- ecosystems
- soils and soil development
- Earth's interior
- Earth's crust and plate tectonics
- landforms and tectonic processes
- gradation, weathering and mass movement
- underground water and karst landforms
- fluvial landforms and processes
- landforms of glacial systems
- Aeolian landforms
- the global ocean
- waves and coastal landforms
- a dynamic physical environment.
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