By Anthony J. Parsons, A. D. Abrahams
About one-third of the Earth’s land floor reports a wilderness weather, and this sector helps nearly 15% of the planet’s inhabitants. This percent maintains to develop, and with this development comes the necessity to gather and follow an figuring out of barren region geomorphology. Such an figuring out is essential in handling scarce and fragile assets and in mitigating average hazards.
This authoritative reference booklet is complete in its assurance of the geomorphology of barren region environments, and is prepared thematically. It starts with an outline of world deserts, proceeds via remedies of weathering, hillslopes, rivers, piedmonts, lake basins, and aeolian surfaces, and concludes with a dialogue of the function of climatic switch. Written by way of a workforce of overseas authors, all of whom are lively within the box, the chapters disguise the spectrum of desolate tract geomorphology.
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