Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Douglas, Ian; Spencer, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science. This is particularly true for the study of landforms, which in higher latitudes suffer great seasonal contrasts in process intensity and type, and which often in the past underwent the dramatic changes of glaciation and periglaciation. Yet studies in the tropics have shown that the legacy of past climate changes is much more dramatic than was formerly believed. This book, first published in 1985, brings together the variety of evidence about such environmental changes, over a variety of timescales, and sets it against the current knowledge of the nature of geomorphic processes in the tropics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429558115
• Artikelnr.: 59425766

Autorenporträt

Iain Douglas and Tom Spencer

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Introduction 1. The History of Geomorphology in Low Latitudes I.
Douglas and T. Spencer 2. The Significance of Environmental Change:
Diversity, Disturbance and Tropical Ecosystems I. Douglas and T. Spencer
Part 2. Environment and Process 3. Present-Day Processes as a Key to the
Effects of Environmental Change I. Douglas and T. Spencer 4. Aspects of
Present-Day Processes in the Seasonally Wet Tropics of West Africa J.-M.
Avenard and P. Michel 5. The Influence of Climate, Lithology and Time on
Drainage Density and Relief Development on the Tropical Volcanic Terrain of
the Windward Islands R.P.D. Walsh 6. Surface and Underground Fluvial
Activity in the Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak P.L. Smart, P.A. Bull,
J. Rose, M. Laverty, H. Friederich and M. Noel Part 3. Environmental Change
7. Relevance of Quaternary Palynology to Geomorphology in the Tropics and
the Subtropics J.R. Flenley 8. Geomorphic Implications of Late Quaternary
Hydrological and Climatic Changes in the Northern Hemisphere Tropics F.A.
Street-Perrott, N. Roberts and S. Metcalf 9. Evidence from Lake Sediments
for Recent Erosion Rates in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea F. Oldfield,
A.T. Worsley and P.G. Appleby 10. Evidence of Upper Pleistocene Dry
Climates in Northern South America J. Tricart 11. Pleistocene Aridity in
Tropical Africa, Australia and Asia M.A.J. Williams Part 4. Landform
Evolution 12. Environmental Change and Episodic Etchplantation in the Humid
Tropics of Sierra Leone: the Koidu Etchplain M.F. Thomas and M.B. Thorp
13. A Provisional World Map of Duricrust M. Petit 14. Tectonic Background
to Long-Term Landform Development in Tropical Africa M.A. Summerfield 15.
Soil and Slope Development in the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka H. Bremer 16.
Relief Generation and Soil in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka H. Späth Part 5.
Conclusion 17. Findings, Answers to Questions and Implications for the
Future I. Douglas and T. Spencer