Overview
- Easy to comprehend featuring more images than text
- All types of terrestrial environments and groups of landforms at a glance, through images and explanatory text
- Over 200 colour images from Google Earth including scales and coordinates
- Offers researchers and non-experts a wealth of information and context to understand global landforms
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Endogenic Forms and Processes
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Front Matter
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Exogenic Forms and Processes
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book of phenomenal illustrations provides a wealth of visual information on the wide variety of landform processes over all latitudes, climates and geological time-scales. It invites you to observe the surface of planet Earth, to appreciate its astonishing beauty and to explore scientific explanations for the form of our landscapes.
250 full-colour images from Google Earth enable all types of terrestrial environments and landforms to be appreciated at a glance. Images are explained with scales, coordinates, explanatory text and references, making the landform processes active on our globe easy for the reader to comprehend.
See the effects of both sudden and slow forming agents such as the impact of a comet or meteorite, and erosion and deposition processes through wind, flowing water, creeping glacier ice, or frost in the ground. Appreciate how landscapes are shaped by processes such as weathering, transport and erosion and how that erosion enables us to look into endogenic processes (those within the Earth´s crust), called tectonics. These images and the processes that they document show that continents are shifting, mountains are uplifting, and ocean bottoms may sink deeper.
This collection will appeal to everyone: researchers, students and non-experts alike can take inspiration from these images, which bring the landforms of the world to life. The scientific discipline of geomorphology becomes accessible through the fascinating insights that these clear, well explained images allow. Â
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landforms of the World with Google Earth
Book Subtitle: Understanding our Environment
Authors: Anja M. Scheffers, Simon M. May, Dieter H. Kelletat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9713-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9712-2Published: 27 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0625-2Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9713-9Published: 11 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 391
Number of Illustrations: 344 b/w illustrations, 169 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geomorphology, Earth System Sciences