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History of geomorphology and Quaternary geology
2008, Geological Society, Geological Society of London
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Table of Contents

Preface
Contributions to the history of geomorphology and Quaternary geology: an introduction / D R Oldroyd & R H Grapes
Questions of periodization and Adolphe von Morlot's contribution to the term and the concept 'Quaternär' (1854) / M Klemun
The Spokane Flood debates: historical background and philosophical perspective / V R Baker
Pleistocene pluvial lakes of the American West: a short history of research / A R Orme
Evolution of the theory of continental glaciation in northern and eastern Europe / A Raukas
Origin and development of ideas on Pliocene and Quaternary glaciations in northern and eastern Europe, Iceland, Caucasus and Siberia / E E Milanovsky
Piotr Alekseevich Kropotkin and his monograph Researches on the Glacial Period (1876) / T K Ivanova & V A Markin
Quaternary research in the Baltic countries / A Gaigalas
Česlovas Pakuckas (or Czesław Pachucki): pioneer of modern glaciomorphology in Lithuania and Poland / A Gaigalas ... [et al.]
Valerija Čepulytė (1904-1987) and her studies of the Quaternary formations in Lithuania / O Kondratieṅ & M Stančikaitė
Early ideas about erratic boulders and glacial phenomena in The Netherlands / F R Van Veen
Planation surfaces in China: one hundred years of investigation / K Zhang
The Palaeo-Tokyo Bay concept / M Yajima
Australia: a Cenozoic history / D Branagan
The study of desert dunes in Australia / C R Twidale
Griffith Taylor, Ernest Andrews et al.: early ideas on the development of the river systems of the Sydney region, eastern Australia, and subsequent ideas on the associated geomorphological problems / D R Oldroyd
Early geological investigations of the Pleistocene Tamala Limestone, Western Australia / W Mayer
Sir Charles Cotton (1885-1970): international geomorphologist / R H Grapes
George Leslie Adkin (1888-1964): glaciation and earth movements in the Tararua Range, North Island, New Zealand / M S Brook.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London
Series
Geological Society special publication -- no. 301

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Dewey Decimal Class
551.4109
Library of Congress
GB400.7 .H565 2008, GB400.7 .H47 2008

The Physical Object

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vii, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

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OL23555068M
Internet Archive
historygeomorpho00grap
ISBN 10
1862392552
ISBN 13
9781862392557
LCCN
2009285468
OCLC/WorldCat
244475069
Library Thing
6755383
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5242935

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