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Geomorphology

Study of Earth's surface features and their evolution.

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Geomorphology is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes at or near Earth's surface.[1] Geologic forces cause mountain belts to rise, and the wearing away of these elevated areas yields sediment that gets moved and laid down elsewhere.[2]

Quick Facts

Field
Earth science
Known for
Study of landforms and terrain evolution

Facts from the source article.

Geography and history

Investigations into landforms and how the Earth's surface has changed go back to thinkers in ancient Greece.[3] William Morris Davis created an early influential landscape model, the geographical or erosion cycle, which he developed from 1884 through 1899.[4] During the 1920s, Walther Penck proposed a different model that focused on a back-and-forth between continuous uplift and denudation.[5] Currently, the discipline includes a broad array of methods and research interests.[6]

What the cited sources add

The Open Library record for ISBN 0471963453 lists "Glacial geology" as a 1996 Wiley publication of 364 pages.[7] The Open Library record for ISBN 9780582301566 lists "Global Geomorphology" as a 537-page book published by Prentice Hall on February 1, 1996.[8] The Open Library record for ISBN 9780521873802 lists "Cosmogenic Nuclides" as an 187-page book published by Cambridge University Press on April 1, 2008.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Geomorphology" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Huggett, "Fundamentals Of Geomorphology", Routledge, 2011, p. 3 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Geomorphology" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Willett, "On steady states in mountain belts", Geology, January 2002, p. 175–178 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Geomorphology" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bierman, Paul R., and David R. Montgomery. Key Concepts in Geomorphology. Macmillan Higher Education, 2014.; Rafferty, John P. (2012). Geological Sciences; Geology: Landforms, Minerals, and Rocks. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing, pp. 8–9. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Geomorphology" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bierman, Paul R., and David R. Montgomery. Key Concepts in Geomorphology. Macmillan Higher Education, 2014.; Oldroyd, David R. & Grapes, Rodney H. Contributions to the history of geomorphology and Quaternary geology: an introduction. In: Grapes, R. H., Oldroyd, D. & Gr (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Geomorphology" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Oldroyd, David R. & Grapes, Rodney H. Contributions to the history of geomorphology and Quaternary geology: an introduction. In: Grapes, R. H., Oldroyd, D. & Gr; Ritter, Dale F., R. Craig Kochel, and Jerry R. Miller. Process geomorphology. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1995. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Geomorphology" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bierman, Paul R., and David R. Montgomery. Key Concepts in Geomorphology. Macmillan Higher Education, 2014. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Open Library record, ISBN 0471963453 ("Glacial geology"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  8. Open Library record, ISBN 9780582301566 ("Global Geomorphology"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  9. Open Library record, ISBN 9780521873802 ("Cosmogenic Nuclides"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Geomorphology (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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