Editorial: Linking Short-term Geomorphic Processes to Landscape Evolution
✍ Scribed by Sugden, David E.; Summerfield, Michael A.; Burt, Timothy P.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 10 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-1269
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✦ Synopsis
This special issue arises out of a symposium organized by the British Geomorphological Research Group (BGRG), which took place in Glasgow on 4 January 1996, during the annual conference of the newly merged Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers (RGS/IBG). As befits a symposium forming part of the first meeting of the new parent body, we took the opportunity to look ahead and tackle one of the most pressing and long-standing problems facing geomorphology: how best does one link small-scale process studies, carried out over time-scales of weeks or a few years, to the larger-scale components of the landscape that have evolved over thousands to millions of years? If geomorphology is to say something useful about the links between short-term processes and large-scale forms, then this is a nut that must be cracked.