| ISBN |
1877058327 : |
| Author |
Twidale, C. R. (Charles Rowland) |
| Title |
Australian landforms : understanding a low, flat, arid and old landscape / C.R. Twidale and E.M. Campbell. |
| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Dural, N.S.W. : Rosenberg Publishing, 2005. |
| Description |
336 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: Australian landforms : structure, process and time. Adelaide : Gleneagles Pub., 1993. |
| Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 309-319. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Australian landforms -- Essay 1. Great and genial figures of the past -- Section A. Tectonic features -- 2. The Earth's structure and major relief -- Essay 2. When the Earth moves: earthquakes -- 3. Plate tectonics -- Essay 3. The north Indian Ocean tsunami, Boxing Day, 2004 -- 4. Volcanoes and volcanic landforms -- Essay 4. The eruption of Mt. Lamington, Papua New Guinea, 1951 -- 5. Folded and faulted surfaces -- Essay 5. Why A-tents are also known as pop-ups -- Section B. Water in the landscape -- 6. Weathering -- Essay 6. Elegant concavities: flared slopes -- 7. Mass movements of material -- Essay 7. Mass movements on the Hummocks Range, South Australia -- 8. How rivers work -- Essay 8. Floods on the lower Murray River and in northwest Queensland -- 9. What rivers achieve: fluvial landforms -- Essay 9. Pediments: regional plains or fringing forms? -- |
| Section C. Structural forms -- 10. Sedimentary terrains -- Essay 10. Regional examples of ridge and valley topography -- 11. Passive fractures: avenues of weathering -- Essay 11. Uluru, an ancient inselberg -- 12. Karst: landforms dependent on high rock solubility -- Essay 12. The Nullarbor Plain: 'a single exposed bedding plant'? -- 13. Pseudostructural landforms -- Essay 13. Meteorite impacts -- Section D. Fluvial landforms -- 14. Models of landscape development -- Essay 14. Descriptive terminology and denudation chronology -- 15. Denudation chronology; and how land surfaces are dated -- Essay 15. A question of survival -- 16. Classification of streams and valleys -- Essay 16. Plaeodrainage: ancient rivers -- Section E. The last two million years -- 17. The Quaternary -- Essay 17. Morphogenetic regions -- 18. Landforms of cold climates -- Essay 18. Older glaciations -- 19. Deserts -- Essay 19. Lunettes or source-bordering dunes -- 20. Coastal forms -- Essay 20. Submaring canyons: erosion by rivers on the ocean floors -- 21. Humans as geomporphogical agents -- Essay 21. Saline soils -- Conclusions -- 22. Overview -- Appendix. Geological background -- Glossary. |
| Level |
For upper secondary school and tertiary students. |
| Subjects |
Geomorphology -- Australia |
| Landforms -- Australia |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Campbell, E. M. |
| Twidale, C. R. (Charles Rowland) "Australian landforms : structure, process and time." |
| Call number |
551.40994 TWI |
