Transient landscapes
Subtitle: insights on a changing planet
By: Ellen E. Wohl
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781607323686
Subjects: Landscape changes; Environmental geomorphology; Geodynamics
Description: "Landscape-the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place-is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through Earth's natural environmental and climatological processes and that which comes from human intervention"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.