Australian landforms : understanding a low, flat, arid and old landscape
著者
書誌事項
Australian landforms : understanding a low, flat, arid and old landscape
Rosenberg Publishing, c2005
Rev. ed
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
注記
Rev. ed. of: Australian landforms : structure, process and time. Adelaide : Gleneagles Pub., 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
For upper secondary school and tertiary students
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Ayers Rock -Uluru - the largest monolith in the world, how did it get there? This book explains the wonders of the Australian landscape in the context of geology, geography, botany, zoology, ecology, environmental studies and agricultural science. Illustrated with 359 colour photos, 20 black and white photos, and 170 maps and diagrams. The authors teach and research in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geology and Geophysics) in the University of Adelaide.
目次
- Australian landforms
- The earth's structure and major relief
- Plate tectonics
- Volcanoes and volcanic landforms
- Folded and faulted surfaces
- Weathering
- Mass Movements on the Hummock Range, South Australia
- How rivers work
- What rivers achieve: fluvial landforms
- Sedimentary terrains
- Passive fractures: avenues of weathering
- Karst: landforms, dependent on high rock solubility
- Pseudostructural landforms
- Models of landscape development
- Denudation chronology: and how land surfaces are dated
- Classification of streams and valleys
- The Quaternary
- Landforms of cold climates
- Deserts
- Coastal forms
- Humans as geomorphogical agents
- Overview
- Index.
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