History of Geomorphology and Quaternary GeologyGeological Society of London, 2008 - 336 pagina's This book deals with various interesting aspects of the histories of geomorphology and Quaternary geology in different parts of the world. The papers cover a range of topics: the origin of the term 'Quaternary', histories of ideas and debates relating to aspects of fluvial geomorphology (USA and Australia), glacial geomorphology and glaciation (Northern Europe, the Baltic countries, Russia, Iceland, and New Zealand), desert dunes and the geology of Australia, peneplains in China, a palaeo-Tokyo Bay in Japan, together with biographies of Charles Cotton (New Zealand), Valerija Cepulyte (Lithuania) and Ceslovas Pakuckas (Lithuania and Poland) that highlight their respective contributions to the disciplines of geomorphology and Quaternary geology. There is an autobiographical contribution from E. E. Milanovsky (Russia) on his work in Siberia, the Caucasus and Iceland, illustrated by his sketches made in the field. |
Inhoudsopgave
Questions of periodization and Adolphe von Morlots contribution to the term | 19 |
GAIGALAS A Quaternary research in the Baltic countries | 129 |
GAIGALAS A GRANICZNY M SATKŪNAS J URBAN H Česlovas Pakuckas or Czesław | 141 |
KONDRATIENĖ O STANČIKAITĖ M Valerija Čepulytė 19041987 and her studies | 149 |
VAN VEEN F R Early ideas about erratic boulders and glacial phenomena in The Netherlands | 159 |
The PalaeoTokyo Bay concept | 179 |
Australia | 186 |
R The study of desert dunes in Australia | 215 |
early ideas on the development | 241 |
international geomorphologist | 315 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Adkin Baltic Basin Blue Mountains boulders Branagan Bretz Bulletin Caucasus Cenozoic Čepulytė Channeled Scabland China coast coastal Cotton deposits Diluvium drainage dunefields dunes Earth eastern erosion erratic evidence Eyre formation formed fossil Geographical Geological Society Geological Survey geologists Geomorphology Geomorphology and Quaternary glaciers gravel GRIGELIS History of Geomorphology Holocene hypothesis Ice Age ice sheet ideas interglacial Island Kropotkin Lake Bonneville landforms landscape Lapstone Late Pleistocene Lithuania London Lyell marine Milanovsky monocline moraines Morlot Nepean North North Island northern OLDROYD origin Pakuckas paper peneplain Péron plains planation surfaces Plateau Pleistocene lakes Pliocene pluvial lakes Quaternary Geology region ridges River rocks Royal Society Russian sand Science sea level sediments Simpson Desert Society of America South Australia South Wales southern Spokane Flood stratigraphic Sturt Sydney Tamala Limestone Tararua Range Taylor tectonic Tertiary theory Torell Twidale University uplift Valley Vilnius volcanic Wellington Western Australia Zealand