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Gondwana Landscapes in southern South America; Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil

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Penilaian

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This book presents extensive and new information on the geomorphology of cratonic areas of southern South America. It includes valuable data relating to recurrent controversies in general geomorphology beyond the boundaries of South America and reveals the great need to integrate many different aspects of geomorphology in regional studies. With the focus on ancient landscapes and especially on planation surfaces it addresses the question of what processes could form such huge features, and how they can be preserved for so long. Many of the papers include maps of planation surfaces or other geomorphic units. The volume brings together an up-to-date, state-of-the-art collection of information on South American geomorphology, and shows beyond doubt that geomorphology is on the same time scale as global tectonics, biological evolution and major climate change. Some of the papers describe ancient geomorphological features of areas that have never been studied or published before, while others describe regions which are totally unknown to the public. The scope of the book extends from tropical latitudes north of the Tropic of Capricorn, south to freezing Patagonia in the “roaring fifties”, more than 3,500 km from north to south. Including over one thousand citations from geological and geomorphological literature, this volume will serve as a starting point for a whole new phase of studies of the fascinating landscape history of southern South America.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
1408010015	EB000000011	551.22 GON r	Central Library	Available

Detail Information

Series Title

Springer Earth System Sciences

Call Number

551.22 RAB g

Publisher

Argentina, Uruguay and souther : Springer Dordrecht., 2014

Collation

xxvi, 545 hlm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-94-007-7702-6

Classification

551.22

Content Type

Text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Geomorfologi
Paleolandscapes

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