This volume is entirely devoted to the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologist, William Morris Davis (1850-1934). It contains a treatment in depth of Davis' many contributions to the study of landforms including: the cycle of erosion denudation chronology arid and karst geomorphology the coral reef problem.
... 743, 829 Bryan, Kirk, Mrs, xx Buch, von Leopold (1774-1853), German geologist, 92 Bucher, Walter H., xx, 4, 538, 829 Buckman, Sydney Savoy, English geologist, 393 Burgess, Edward (1848-91), yacht designer and Harvard entomologist, ...
The History of the Study of Landforms, Or, The Development of Geomorphology: The life and work of William Morris Davis
This Routledge Revivals set makes available for the first time as a collection the first three volumes of The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology, the groundbreaking and definitive study in geomorphology ...
Historical and regional geomorphology, 1890-1950 Richard J. Chorley, Robert Percy Beckinsale, Antony J. Dunn ... But in leaning towards mobility Wegener was faced with devising an acceptable force adequate to cause continental ...
C.E.DUTTON The outstanding member of Powell's survey group not yet discussed was Clarence Edward Dutton, who was born at Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1841. Dutton graduated from Yale University in 1860, where he won the Literary Prize ...
Historical and Regional Geomorphology, 1890-1950 Robert P. Beckinsale, Richard J. Chorley ... But in leaning towards mobility Wegener was faced with devising an acceptable force adequate to cause continental displacement on such a vast ...
Brown, Eric H. (1922– ), English geomorphologist, 158, 162, 185, 198,311,313,315,398,416,159 Browne, William Rowan (1884–1975), ... 1 Buckman, Sydney Savoy (1860–1929), English geologist, 158, 301, 320, 302; see also Vol.
Geomorphology before Davis
Matthes , F. E. ( 1947 ) ' Macroturbulence in natural stream flow ' , Discussion , Transactions of the American ... mountain streams : effects of geology on channel characteristics and bed material , New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and ...
The first part has seen a proliferation of publications, in which granite landform inventories were reported and documented more or less thor- oughly, although limited availability of good topographical data constrained a quantitative ...