Description During the past few decades climatic geomorphology has been substantially enlarged in knowledge, thanks to numerous detailed investigations,
the application of a large number of techniques, and the acquisition of abundant absolute dates. The challenge of predicting the effects
of the prophesied future global warming on morphogenetic processes and landforms has encouraged geomorphologists to study the Late Pleistocene
and Holocene climatic changes from the geomorphological and geological record. The advances achieved in the field of climatic geomorphology
during the past years are reflected by the publication of several specific monographs about the different morphoclimatic zones. The aim
of this book is to provide an up-to-date general view of this branch of geomorphology. It includes a chapter on applied geomorphology
for each morphoclimatic zone providing an approximation of the main environmental problems.
Audience
Geoscientists, geomorphologists
Contents FIRST PART - Introduction and concepts
1. Climatic geomorphology
SECOND PART - Geomorphology of glacial zones
2. Glaciers
3. Glacial
erosion
4. Glacial transportation and sedimentation
5. Fluvioglacial erosion and sedimentation
6. Geomorphology applied to glacial regions
THIRD PART - Geomorphology of periglacial zones
7. The periglacial environment
8. Periglacial landforms
9. Some aspects of applied
geomorphology in periglacial regions
FOURTH PART - Geomorphology of arid regions
10. The arid zones
11. Weathering processes and resulting
forms
12. Desert surfaces: pavements, patterned ground, varnishes and crusts
13. The action of water in arid regions
14. Slopes in arid
zones
15. The arid region piedmonts: glacis and alluvial fans
16. Desert lakes: playa-lakes and sebkhas
FIFTH PART - Eolian geomorphology
17. Eolian processes and erosive landforms
18. Eolian deposits
19. Applied geomorphologphy and arid regions
SEVENTH PART- Geomorphology
of tropical zones
20. The humid tropics: weathering and laterites
21. Tropical landforms
22. Applied geomorphology in tropical regions
EIGHTH PART - Geomorphology and climate change
23. Environmental change
24. Climate change in glacial and periglacial regions
25. Climate
change in arid and tropical humid regions
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