Physical Geography
A Landscape Appreciation
5th Edition
Published on 1. December 1995
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-0-13-440215-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
150 photographs, 240 maps
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 220 mm
Weight
1503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-440215-4 (9780134402154)
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Content
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.