History of geomorphology and Quaternary geology /
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| Author / Creator: | Grapes, R. H. |
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| Imprint: | London : The Geological Society, 2008. |
| Description: | vii, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Geological Society special publication ; no. 301 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7303356 |
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.