Introduction

Abstract

In company with other anthologists in this series, the editor of this volume is acutely aware of the magnitude of the task which he has set himself in attempting to represent adequately and to the satisfaction of most readers a field of knowledge at once so long established, highly contentious and fully documented as climatic geomorphology. It can only be hoped that this collection, in offering material which for linguistic or other reasons has not been widely available for critical perusal, will make possible a deeper and more balanced appreciation of the nature and development of climatic geomorphology up to the late 1960s.