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PENCK PROF DR WALTHER [TRANSLATED BY H CZECH AND K C BOSWELL]

Morphological Analysis of Land Forms : A Contribution to Physical Geology

Macmillan, U.K. 1953. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. xiii, 429 pages, size 8.75 inches tall by 6 inches with an index. Illustrated with black and white plates. CONTENTS : Preface; List of plates. Chapter : I. INTRODUCTION 1. Nature of the Problem; 2. Basis, Nature and Aim of Morphological Analysis; 3. Critical Survey of Methods (a) Cycle of Erosion; (b) Relationship between Endogenetic and Exogenetic Processes (c) The Differential Method (d) Present Method of Approach II. THE EARTH'S CRUST 1. Composition and Structure of the Crust 2. The Altitudinal Form of the Earth's Crust: how it is built up 3. Connection between Altitudinal Form and the Structure of the Earth's Crust III. REDUCTION OF ROCK MATERIAL 1. Nature of Weathering. Exposure 2. Weathering Processes and their Products (a) Mechanical Reduction Effect of Insolation Frost Weathering (b) Chemical Weathering (c) Solution 3. Rate of Weathering and Differential Weathering Resistance to Weathering 4. Uniformity in the Process of Rock Reduction The Soil Profile 5. Unequal Exposure 6. Mobility of Reduced Material 7. World Climatic and Soil Zones 8. Limits of Weathering 9. Relationship of Weathering to Denudation Renewal of Exposure Block Seas [Seas of Broken Rock] Summary. IV. MASS MOVEMENT 1. Resistance to Denudation Cohesion of Rocks Friction Root System of Plants 2. Motive Forces concerned in Mass-Movement Increase of Weight Fluctuations in Volume Periods of Movement 3. Ways in which Mass-Movement takes place at the Earth's Surface (a) Migration as Individual Loose Fragments Landslides (Rock Fall) (b) Movement where Material is Accumulating (a) Free Mass-Movement Slumping Type of Landslide Slumping at the Level of the Water Table Solifluction (B) Bound-down Mass-Movement (y) Corrasion and Corrasion Valleys V. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DENUDATION 1. Retrospect. Relationship to Climate 2. The Principle of Flattening 3. The Concepts: Denudation, Corrasion, Erosion 4. Classification of the Regions of Denudation 5. Base Levels of Erosion and of Denudation VI. DEVELOPMENT OF SLOPES 1. Gradient and Form of Slopes 2. Flattening of Slopes Concave Base Levels of Denudation 3. Unequal Exposure. Rounding of Heights 4. Straight Slope Profiles. Uniform Development 5. Convex Breaks of Gradient Additional Notes on the Origin of Concave Breaks of Gradient : 6. Development of Relative Height. Waxing Development and Waning Development. 7. Rates of Growth and Areas of Slope Units (Form Systems) Continuity of the Curvature of Slopes 8. Rise in the General Base Level of Denudation 9. Influence Exerted by Rocks of Heterogeneous Character upon the Development of Slopes Structural Base Levels of Denudation 10. Summary VII. LINKING OF SLOPES, FORM ASSOCIATIONS AND SETS OF LAND FORMS 1. Occurrence and Combination of Convex and Concave Slopes 2. Cuesta Landscapes (Scarplands) 3. Inselberg Landscapes 4. Piedmont Flats and Piedmont Benchlands (a) The Harz (b) Piedmont Benchlands 5. Broad Folds (a) The Alps (b) Eastern Slope of the Alps and its Boundary against the Karst (c) Anatolia (d) The Andine System of Mountain Ranges (e) General Survey. NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES. LIST OF WALTHER PENCK'S PUBLICATIONS TABLE OF CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY FORMATIONS. SUMMARIES (by K.C.B.) GLOSSARY German-English English-German. INDEX. Book - in Very Good green boards with gilt lettering with faint irregular fading. Contents, light browning to the endpapers, half title page and faint speckling to the page edges, previous owner's inscription to the top of the free front endpaper, otherwise Very Good, clean, bright and tightly bound. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science & Technology; geology; Inventory No: 001193.

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Book number: 001193

GBP 46.08 [Appr.: EURO 57.75 US$ 72.24 | JP¥ 5746]

Catalogue: Science & Technology

Keywords: Penck Czech Boswell Geology Physics Science Morphology Morphological WBMXX Science & Technology; geology; geology