The history of the study of landforms, or, The development of geomorphology. Vol. 1, Geomorphology before Davis

• Main Author: Chorley, Richard J.
• Other Authors: Dunn, Antony J., Beckinsale, R. P.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge revivals.
• Subjects: Geomorphology > History.; SCIENCE > Geography. > Earth Sciences; SCIENCE > Geology. > Earth Sciences; Electronic books.
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This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal€series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important statement of...

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Part One: 'Worlds Without End'; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Early Ideas on Erosion and Rock Strata; Chapter Three: Abraham Werner and the Universal Ocean; Chapter Four: James Hutton and 'Worlds Without End'; Chapter Five: The Initial Reaction and the Second Appearance of Hutton's Theory; Chapter Six: Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth; Chapter Seven: The Wernerian Counter-Offensive, 1802-20; Chapter Eight: The First Quantitative Work on Landscape Processes.