Earth rheology, isostasy and eustasy edited by Nils-Axel Mörner. Wiley. Chichester. 599 pp. with index. Price £35.00. (ISBN 0 471 27593 X)

• Book ID: 102221784
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0072-1050
• DOI: 10.1002/gj.3350150210

✦ Synopsis

This book owes its conception to a highly successful conference held in London in April, 1976 when the British Geomorphological Research Groups met to examine the progress made in this science during the past two decades and to assess the importance of the national contribution to each of its component parts. Eight 'key note' addresses for various geomorphological areas of interest were given by R. J. Chorley (U.K., methodology), L. B. Leopold (U.S.A., fluvial). f . Gjessing (Norway, glacial), J. Demek (Poland, periglacial), I. Douglas (Australia, tropical), H. 5. Walker (U.S.A.. coastal) and G. H. Drury (U.S.A.. future prospects). In addition. sessional meetings were held at which leading British practitioners reviewed the work done by their compatriots. This volume contains all sixteen of these