Landscapes and Geomorphology A Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 August 2010

Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles demonstrate how geomorphologists have built on classic methods

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 August 2010

What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 11 October 2018

Vast, majestic, and often stunningly beautiful, glaciers lock up some 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important part in the Earth system, carving landscapes and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 February 2019

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2018

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 August 2021

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 39,5 Mb
• Release Date : 26 November 2020

Throughout our planet's history volcanoes have played a large role in shaping landscapes, the climate, and biological evolution. This book explains the fundamental mechanisms of volcanism, considering why volcanoes are

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 26 April 2012

Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 February 2018

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 November 2009

Preface; 1 Desert Climates; 2 Desert Landscapes; 3 The Nature of Deserts; 4 People and Deserts; 5 Deserts Connections.