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Title:
Physical geography : science and systems of the human environment
Author:
Strahler, Alan H.
ISBN:
9780471480532
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Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Wiley, c2005.
Physical Description:
xxii, 794 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Contents:
Introdution Physical Geography -- Spheres, Scales, Systems, and Cycles -- WEATHER AND CLIMATES SYSTEMS -- The Earth as a Rotating Planet -- The Global Energy System -- Air Temperature and Air Temperature Cycles -- Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation -- Winds and the Global Circulation System -- Weather Systems -- The Global Scope of Climate -- Low-Latitude Climates -- Midlatitude and High-Latitude Climates -- SYSTEM AND CYCLES OF THE SOLID EARTH -- Earth Materials and the Cycles of Rock Change -- The Lithosphere and the Tectonic System -- Volconic and Tectonic Landforms -- SYSTEMS OF LANDFORM EVOLUTION -- Weathering and Mass Wasting -- The Cycling of Water on the Continents -- Fluvial Processes and Landforms -- Landforms and Rock Structure -- The Work of Waves and Wind -- Glacier Systems and the Ice Age -- SYSTEMS AND CYCLES OF SOIL AND THE BIOSPHERE -- Soil Systems -- Systems and Cycles of the Biosphere -- Biographical Processes -- Global Ecosystems.
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