| Description |
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Geological Society special publication ; no. 301 |
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Geological Society special publication ; no. 301
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| Contents |
Preface -- Contributions to the history of geomorphology and Quaternary geology: an introduction / D R Oldroyd & R H Grapes -- Questions of periodization and Adolphe von Morlot's contribution to the term and the concept 'Quaternär' (1854) / M Klemun -- The Spokane Flood debates: historical background and philosophical perspective / V R Baker -- Pleistocene pluvial lakes of the American West: a short history of research / A R Orme -- Evolution of the theory of continental glaciation in northern and eastern Europe / A Raukas -- Origin and development of ideas on Pliocene and Quaternary glaciations in northern and eastern Europe, Iceland, Caucasus and Siberia / E E Milanovsky -- Piotr Alekseevich Kropotkin and his monograph Researches on the Glacial Period (1876) / T K Ivanova & V A Markin -- Quaternary research in the Baltic countries / A Gaigalas -- Česlovas Pakuckas (or Czesław Pachucki): pioneer of modern glaciomorphology in Lithuania and Poland / A Gaigalas ... [et al.] -- Valerija Čepulytė (1904-1987) and her studies of the Quaternary formations in Lithuania / O Kondratieṅ & M Stančikaitė -- Early ideas about erratic boulders and glacial phenomena in The Netherlands / F R Van Veen -- Planation surfaces in China: one hundred years of investigation / K Zhang -- The Palaeo-Tokyo Bay concept / M Yajima -- Australia: a Cenozoic history / D Branagan -- The study of desert dunes in Australia / C R Twidale -- Griffith Taylor, Ernest Andrews et al.: early ideas on the development of the river systems of the Sydney region, eastern Australia, and subsequent ideas on the associated geomorphological problems / D R Oldroyd -- Early geological investigations of the Pleistocene Tamala Limestone, Western Australia / W Mayer -- Sir Charles Cotton (1885-1970): international geomorphologist / R H Grapes -- George Leslie Adkin (1888-1964): glaciation and earth movements in the Tararua Range, North Island, New Zealand / M S Brook |
| Analysis |
Quaternary geology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Author |
Grapes, R. H.
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Oldroyd, D. R. (David Roger)
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Grigelis, Algimantas, 1931-
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Geological Society of London.
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| ISBN |
9781862392557 hardback |
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1862392552 hardback |
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