Geological Surface Processes (Geomorphology)

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater...

Fluvial Geomorphology studies the biophysical processes acting in rivers, and the sediment patterns and landforms resulting from them. It is a disc...

Vast, majestic, and often stunningly beautiful, glaciers lock up some 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important pa...

Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes ...

Recent studies indicate that - due to climate change - the Earth is undergoing rapid changes in all cryospheric components, including polar sea ice...

Recent studies indicate that - due to climate change - the Earth is undergoing rapid changes in all cryospheric components, including polar sea ice...

What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very l...

Berkshire contains places of great beauty, and a market town, Thatcham, that may be the longest continuously inhabited settlement in the British Is...

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes a...

Antarctica is a magnificent display of interaction between air and the various phases of water in a pristine environment. This interaction has led ...

This unique richly-illustrated account of the landforms and geology of the world''s coasts, presented in a country-by-country (state-by-state) sequ...

Nearly all major planets and moons in our Solar System have been visited by spacecraft and the data they have returned has revealed the incredible ...

This is the first textbook to address all the components of the Earth''s cryosphere - all forms of snow and ice, both terrestrial and marine. It pr...

In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its his...

Through a process of stakeholder meetings, review of previous reports and extensive correspondence with communities, 178 Alaska communities were fo...

As major actors in the unfolding drama of climate change, glaciers feature prominently in Earths past and its future. Wherever on the planet we liv...

Geosequestration involves the deep geological storage of carbon dioxide from major industrial sources, providing a potential solution for reducing ...

This volume addresses the multi-disciplinary topic of engineering geology and the environment, one of the fastest growing, most relevant and applie...

'Outstanding Academic Title' Choice, magazine of the Association of College & Research Libraries, American Library Association.Most mountains o...

A delta is a landform that is created at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, ...

I can think of no better guides than Professors Ken Gregory and John Lewin to lead the reader through the conceptual basis of this exciting science...

The earth''s cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains ab...

Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphology is practised within geology, engineering geolog...

Tectonic geomorphology is the study of the interplay between tectonic and surface processes that shape the landscape in regions of active deformati...

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It discusses the shapes, size...

This book is in response to the growing demand from academics and the general public for state-of-the-art research in permafrost science and, in pa...