Tectonically Active Landscapes

✍ Scribed by William B. Bull

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 333
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Landscapes are mainly hillslopes with streams occupying less than 10% of drainage-basin areas. This book emphasizes tectonic geomorphology of hills, and treats the network of stream channels as the connecting link between upstream and downstream parts of a fluvial system.

✦ Subjects

Горно-геологическая отрасль;Геология;Геоморфология и четвертичная геология;

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