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Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change: Britain In The Last 1000 Years (RGS-IBG Book Series)
 
 
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Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change: Britain In The Last 1000 Years (RGS-IBG Book Series) [Hardcover]

David Higgitt (Editor), E. Mark Lee (Editor)

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0631222731 978-0631222736 December 4, 2001 1
The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes.

  • Provides an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years.
  • The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes.
  • Considers the relevance of technological and conceptual approaches to understanding landscape dynamics.
  • Examines key process environments highlighting significant trends and the influence of human activity, and incorporating examples and modelling.
  • Encourages geographers to look forward to the challenges that geomorphology faces in the new millennium.

Find out more information about the RGS-IBG journals by following the links below:

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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894

The Geographical Journal:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398

Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754


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"This significant and timely volume provides a contemporary body of information on the function of geomorphological processes in landscape and environmental management in human history." (Choice)

"I enjoyed this particular journey through time, which contains some thought-provoking (though invariably qualitative) observations on the making of the British landscape." (Basil Gomez, Annals of the Association of American Geographers)

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This book provides an overview of geomorphological process activity & landscape change in Britain over the past 1,000 years. The range of the book is broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor & floodplain, fluvial, estuarine, & coastal processes.

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Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
The landscape of Britain displays an enormous variety of scenery in a comparatively small space. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
geomorphological process activity, peat slides, peat erosion, consolidation domain, coast protection works, floodplain response, specific sediment yield, planform change, landslide complex, geomorphological activity, cliff recession, fluvial response, floodplain sedimentation, sediment transfer, coastal defence works, geomorphological change, landslide activity, sediment stores, coastal landslides, flood embankments, river channel changes, overbank sedimentation, tidal prism, floodplain storage, hillslope processes
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Ice Age, Earth Surface Processes, Great Britain, Isle of Wight, Lyme Regis, Medieval Warm Period, British Isles, The Cobb, Cambridge University Press, Chesil Beach, Geological Society, Black Ven, West Bay, Department of the Environment, East Devon, Hydrological Processes, Isle of Portland, North Sea, Physical Geography, Thomas Telford, Environment Agency, Folkestone Warren, Golden Cap, Howgill Fells, Ministry of Agriculture
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