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This textbook provides a modern, quantitative and process-oriented approach to equip students with the tools to understand geomorphology. Insight into the interpretation of landscapes is developed from basic principles and simple models, and by stepping through the equations that capture the essence of the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes. Boxed worked examples and real-world applications bring the subject to life for students, allowing them to apply the theory to their own experience. The book covers cutting edge topics, including the revolutionary cosmogenic nuclide dating methods and modeling, highlights links to other Earth sciences through up-to-date summaries of current research, and illustrates the importance of geomorphology in understanding environmental changes. Setting up problems as a conservation of mass, ice, soil, or heat, this book arms students with tools to fully explore processes, understand landscapes, and to participate in this rapidly evolving field.
- Sales Rank: #135330 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
- Published on: 2010-07-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.87" h x 1.18" w x 8.62" l, 3.82 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 651 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"... this book is terrific! ... a model of what a textbook should be, and the first place I'd send a student or colleague to get them excited about landscapes and how we study them." Chris Paola, Professor of Geology & Geophysics, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis
"This much needed, skillfully crafted text will be welcomed by the geomorphology community. ... the text can be used for an introductory course, or as part of a more advanced course. ... The overall reaction of my students using a draft version has been very positive." David Jon Furbish, Professor & Chair, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
"A wonderful, wide ranging review of the modern science of geomorphology." Niels Hovius, Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
"The book is both authoritative and accessible, encouraging students (and instructors) to think creatively and precisely about how the landscape evolves. Unlike previous geomorphology texts, it provides a consistent approach for defining and solving models for the full range of features found on the surface of the Earth." Peter R. Wilcock, Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
"It is an excellent book, especially with respect to incorporating the basic science and physics of the processes outlined in the main text as well as providing an accessible narrative explanation of the different environments covered. As such, I intend to strongly recommend ... it to my first year Earth: Portrait of a Planet module ... as one of three key texts for the module. I will emphasise this text for those students on the BSc Geography and BSc Environmental Sciences ... programmes ... as being useful throughout their undergraduate degree. In particular it will be a help for second year modules Global Environmental Change, Earth Systems Cycles and Research Strategies in Physical Environments, as well as providing preliminary reading for specialist modules in the third year." Dr Simon Carr, School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London
"... an excellent book, especially with respect to incorporating the basic science and physics of the processes outlined in the main text as well as providing an accessible narrative explanation of the different environments covered." Dr Simon Carr, Queen Mary University of London
"...one of the best sources of information on process geomorphology that this reviewer has seen in many years. ... This reviewer wishes this book had been available when he was a student. ...Highly recommended." CHOICE
About the Author
Bob Anderson has taught geomorphology since 1988, first at University of California, Santa Cruz, and now at University of Colorado, Boulder. Bob has now studied most parts of landscapes, from the glaciated tips to the coastal toes, with significant attention to sediment transport mechanics, interaction of geophysical and geomorphic processes to shape mountain ranges, evolution of bedrock canyons and glaciated landscapes. He has participated in the development of a new tool kit that employs cosmogenic radionucides to establish timing in the landscape. He develops numerical models of landscapes that honor both field observations and first principles of conservation; these models in turn have served to hone his field efforts. In the course of this academic adventure, he was founding editor of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, co-authored the textbook Tectonic Geomorphology (2000, Wiley-Blackwell) with Doug Burbank, and has been honoured by election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Suzanne Anderson has been on the faculty at University of Colorado, Boulder since 2004, where she teaches courses on Geomorphology, Earth's Critical Zone, Landscapes and Water, and Glaciers and Permafrost. Her awards include an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award at University of California, Berkeley, a NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global Change Research, and an NSF Earth Sciences Post-doctoral Fellowship. Suzanne's research has taken her to Svalbard, Alaska, Oregon and Nepal, and has focused on interactions between chemical weathering, hydrology, and physical erosion mechanisms. She currently directs the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, an NSF environmental observatory based at the University of Colorado and involving researchers from four institutions and agencies. Suzanne was editor of Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research from 2004-2006, and served as an associate editor of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface from 2002-2006.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Geomorphology as a mature science
By Herman Jackson
I have seen the future (of geomorphology) and it's in this book.
Today the emphasis in geomorphology is on understanding of the processes. This book focuses on those processes with quantitative description/explanation being the objective. The list of topics is reasonably complete (view the Table of Contents). Some topics such as "Tectonic Geomorphology" and "Dating Methods" are a bit unusual but reading the chapters leaves no doubt about their permanence in this book.
The things I believe will cause this book to be widely used are the layout, the depth of the quantitative/mathematical explanation of processes, and the chapter problem sets.
Each chapter begins with a half-page overview that should help focus the reader on the intended reason for that chapter's existence. At the end of each chapter is a one page summary that puts major points made in the chapter into perspective. Finally, each chapter has a problem set with mainly quantitative problems , but some thought questions requiring integration/extrapolation of material from the chapter. There are none of the classic topographic map or aerial photo type questions. That shouldn't present a problem in the classroom as older faculty surely have their own favorites of these.
Historically geomorphology has been largely a descriptive science with math limited primarily to quantifying the description. Here the math is in the nature of explanation - much as it would appear in a physics or engineering text. Opening the book randomly (P. 333), in a discussion of landslides I find an explanation of failure angle as a function of the angle of internal friction. For geology students it is of more than passing interest that the fields of geomorphology and structural geology overlap. On page 377 a problem statement is: "Consider a thin flow of water on a smooth slope. The slope is 10 deg., and the thickness of the flow is measured to be 4 mm. Calculate the mean speed of the flow and assess whether the flow will be turbulent or laminar." Hello - geomorphology meets sedimentology.
I like the book - I like it a lot. But there are a couple of points that I found to be disappointing.
There is no glossary. Having been in the classroom for several decades now both as student and teacher I have learned to look first at the table of contents then the glossary. Due to the mathematical/engineering nature of this book the glossary is less necessary than it would be in a more classic approach, however I still think it is needed. And with text in digital form, construction of a glossary (preferably with page references so it also functions as an index) is only an editing job.
Because of my own history with geomorphology I would have liked to see at least a brief discussion of two topics. Despite the incompleteness of Davis' model of youth-maturity-old age, that generalization still has a great deal of utility and should be in the working toolkit of every student of geomorphology. Being a geologist one of the primary reasons I want my students to study geomorphology is to learn what the landforms reveal about the structure/stratigraphy of the bedrock. Though both of these items are present "between the lines" I think students should be introduced to them face-to-face.
Faculty considering this text are likely to face three major concerns:
1) "Missing material" - the classic and geologic stuff mentioned above
2) Student weakness - The text will provide a considerable challenge to students' knowledge/proficiency in math, physics, and chemistry.
3) Faculty weakness - The text will provide a considerable challenge to faculty knowledge/proficiency in math, physics, and chemistry.
In 1961, Adrian Scheidegger's "Theoretical Geomorphology" introduced the mode of analysis now brought to fruition in "Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes. If you realized as I did upon seeing that embryonic work that it was pointing to the future of geomorphology you'll be delighted to see in this book the same in early maturity.
I recommend this book without reservation for serious students and researchers in geomorphology as well as for persons venturing into the study of landscapes from the more quantitative branches of science. As an introductory text, the decision will depend strongly on my concerns #2 and #3 listed above.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great text!
By K Sean Daniels
It is dense, but then, so is the subject. The processes are well explained and the equations are as well. I recommend this text to anyone studying this subject. A+++
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Anderson & Anderson is a great undergraduate text or reference for the non-specialist
By Kevin
This text is a very clear and concise introduction to geomorphology. I am an engineer by training, and I very much appreciate the process-based focus of the book. Topics are up to date, incorporating research ideas and results that were still being introduced at the time of the book's writing. Anderson & Anderson is a great undergraduate text or reference for the non-specialist.
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