Geomorphic Responses to Climatic Change - Softcover

William B. Bull

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932846212 ISBN 13: 9781932846218

Publisher: The Blackburn Press, 2009

Synopsis

Process-oriented climatic fluvial geomorphology is the focus of Geomorphic Responses to Climate Change. This book, originally published in 1991, develops concepts through discussion of climate-induced changes in fluvial-systems of four field areas' traverse and coastal ranges of California, the southern and basin and range province of North America, Israel and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and New Zealand. The book emphasizes the importance of lithography and structure. Vegetation and soil-profile development are key topics in all chapters because they greatly influence erosion and deposition.

The basic topics of climate and paleoclimateology, vegetation, soil genesis, and geochronology are discussed in each chapter as essential background and to assess the responses of geomorphic processes to climate change. Descriptions of current climates are compared with paleoclimatic inferences.

The book is written primarily for graduate students and professionals; however, it may also be useful as an undergraduate text because the concepts it presents are essential to many types of geomorphic analysis.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Bull is an applied geologist educated at Colorado and Stanford University. He taught geomorphology in the Geosciences Department at the University of Arizona for 28 years. He has spent 12 years studying land subsidence with the Water Resources Division of the U. S. Geological Survey.

Review:

The extensive and detailed analyses presented in chapters 2 through 5 are testimony to Bull's skills as a field scientist, his powers of observation and interpretation, and his dedication to his trade. The richness and quality of data presented in these pages will be invaluable to posterity. --Geographical Review

This book contains a number of provocative ideas concerning traditional topics in fluvial geomorphology, and it has many important strengths that revolve around the central theme of fluvial response to climactic change. This is a fine piece of work and will be a valuable reference to students of geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and archaeological geology. For the archaeological geologist, the strength of this book lies in the range of pertinent issues raised, and how it manages to synthesize, in great detail, large bodies of complex data that bear on the variability and complexity of fluvial response to climactic change. In doing so, it provides an excellent example of the holistic, multidisciplinary approach necessary for these types of studies. --Geoarchaeology

This book is very well written, with excelent black-and-white photographic illustrations. This book would be excellent as a graduate-level text in the geosciences or as a professional reference book. It does an outstanding job of describing the theory and mechanics of how climate effects drive geomorphology and how they are recognized in surficial geological deposits and landforms. This book would be useful to climatologists who are interested in the gritty details of this geomorphic evidence. --Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

About this edition

• Publisher: The Blackburn Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1932846212
• ISBN 13: 9781932846218
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 352