The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology: Historical and Regional Geomorphology 1890-1950 (History of the Study of Landforms)

This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology.