Geomorphological Landscapes of the World

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 The Mackenzie Delta: An Archetypal Permafrost Landscape
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   Chapter 2 The South Nahanni: High-Latitude Limestone Landscapes
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   Chapter 3 Channeled Scablands: A Megaflood Landscape
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   Chapter 4 Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out
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   Chapter 5 Canyonlands and Arches: Windows on Landscapes in the American Southwest
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   Chapter 6 Grand Canyon: The Puzzle of the Colorado River
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   Chapter 7 Parícutin Volcano: To the Other Side
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   Chapter 8 The Cockpit Country of Jamaica: An Island Within an Island
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    Chapter 9 The Gran Sabana: The World’s Finest Quartzite Karst?
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    Chapter 10 Rio de Janeiro: A Metropolis Between Granite-Gneiss Massifs
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    Chapter 11 Iguazu Falls: A History of Differential Fluvial Incision
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    Chapter 12 The Southern Patagonian Andes: The Largest Mountain Ice Cap of the Southern Hemisphere
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    Chapter 13 The Dry Valleys: An Ancient and Cold Desert in Antarctica
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    Chapter 14 Drakensberg Escarpment: Mountains of Geomorphic Diversity
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    Chapter 15 Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders
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    Chapter 16 Spitzkoppe: The World of Granite Landforms
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    Chapter 17 Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert
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    Chapter 18 North-Eastern Niger: Sandstone Landscape of the Sahara
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    Chapter 19 Afar Triangle: Rift Valleys and Volcanoes over Plate Divergence
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    Chapter 20 Dolomites: The Spectacular Landscape of the ‘Pale Mountains’
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    Chapter 21 Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland: Sandstone Rock Cities and Fascination in a Romantic Landscape
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    Chapter 22 The Dorset and East Devon Coast: England’s Geomorphological World Heritage Site
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    Chapter 23 Fjords of Norway: Complex Origin of a Scenic Landscape
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    Chapter 24 Iceland: Glaciers and Volcanoes in the North Atlantic
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    Chapter 25 The Dead Sea Graben: Geomorphology of the Lowest Spot on Earth
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    Chapter 26 The Western Ghat: The Great Escarpment of India
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    Chapter 27 The Pokhara Valley: A Product of a Natural Catastrophe
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    Chapter 28 The Loess Plateau of China: Aeolian Sedimentation and Fluvial Erosion, Both with Superlative Rates
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    Chapter 29 Sanqingshan: The Incredible Granite Peaks of Eastern China
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    Chapter 30 Guangxi Karst: The Fenglin and Fengcong Karst of Guilin and Yangshuo
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    Chapter 31 Mt. Fuji: The Beauty of a Symmetric Stratovolcano
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    Chapter 32 Mulu: The World’s Most Spectacular Tropical Karst
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    Chapter 33 Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas): Inselbergs of Central Australia
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    Chapter 34 Bungle Bungle: Tower Karst in Sandstone
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    Chapter 35 Wellington’s Tectonic Landscape: Astride a Plate Boundary
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    Chapter 36 Geomorphological Landscapes of the World
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    Chapter 37 World Heritage and Geomorphology