History of geomorphology and Quaternary geology
By: edited by R.H. Grapes, D. Oldroyd, and A. Grigelis.
Contributors: Grapes, R. H.; Grigelis, Algimantas, 1931-; Oldroyd, David.
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no. 301
Publisher: Geological Society; Geological Society of London
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781862392557
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary; Geomorphology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Contributions to the history of geomorphology and Quaternary geology: an introduction / D R Oldroyd & R H Grapes; title: Questions of periodization and Adolphe von Morlot's contribution to the term and the concept 'Quaternär' (1854) / M Klemun; title: The Spokane Flood debates: historical background and philosophical perspective / V R Baker; title: Pleistocene pluvial lakes of the American West: a short history of research / A R Orme; title: Evolution of the theory of continental glaciation in northern and eastern Europe / A Raukas; title: Origin and development of ideas on Pliocene and Quaternary glaciations in northern and eastern Europe, Iceland, Caucasus and Siberia / E E Milanovsky; title: Piotr Alekseevich Kropotkin and his monograph Researches on the Glacial Period (1876) / T K Ivanova & V A Markin; title: Quaternary research in the Baltic countries / A Gaigalas; title: Česlovas Pakuckas (or Czesław Pachucki): pioneer of modern glaciomorphology in Lithuania and Poland / A Gaigalas ... [et al.]; title: Valerija Čepulytė (1904-1987) and her studies of the Quaternary formations in Lithuania / O Kondratieṅ & M Stančikaitė; title: Early ideas about erratic boulders and glacial phenomena in The Netherlands / F R Van Veen; title: Planation surfaces in China: one hundred years of investigation / K Zhang; title: The Palaeo-Tokyo Bay concept / M Yajima; title: Australia: a Cenozoic history / D Branagan; title: The study of desert dunes in Australia / C R Twidale; title: 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; title: Early geological investigations of the Pleistocene Tamala Limestone, Western Australia / W Mayer; title: Sir Charles Cotton (1885-1970): international geomorphologist / R H Grapes; title: George Leslie Adkin (1888-1964): glaciation and earth movements in the Tararua Range, North Island, New Zealand / M S Brook.