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This book, first published in 1984, has both a geomorphic and a hydrologic message. It examines and analyses the role of groundwater in landscapes in a series of articles by authors of diverse backgrounds and experience.
List of contents
1. Rates of Soil Formation
John E. Foss and Antonio V. Segovia 2. Piping and Sapping: Development of Landforms by Groundwater Outflow
Charles G. Higgins 3. Near-Surface Groundwater and Evolution of Structurally Controlled Streams in Soft Sediments
Zeev Berger and Jacob Aghassy 4. Landforms and Soils of the Tropics
Antonio V. Segovia and John E. Foss 5. Role of Subterranean Water in Landform Development in Tropical and Subtropical Regions
C. Rowland Twidale 6. Potential Effects of Acid Rain on Glaciated Terrain
William W. Shilts 7. Hydrologic Classification of Caves and Karst
John E. Mylroie 8. Geomorphic Interpretation of Features
Arthur N. Palmer 9. Theory and Model for Global Carbonate Solution by Groundwater
John J. Drake 10. Rate Processes: Chemical Kinetics and Karst Landform Development
William B. White 11. Theoretical Considerations on Simulation of Karstic Aquifers
James J. Cullen IV and Robert G. LaFleur 12. Role of Groundwater in Shaping the Eastern Coastline of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
William Back, Bruce B. Hanshaw and J. Nicholas Van Driel 13. Karst Landform Development Along the Cumberland Plateau Escarpment of Tennessee
Nicholas C. Crawford 14. Karst Groundwater Activity and Landform Genesis in Modern Permafrost Regions of Canada
Derek C. Ford 15. Hydrogeomorphic Evolution of Karsted Plateaus in Response to Regional Rectonism
Ernst H. Kastning, Jr.
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R.G. LaFleur
Summary
This book, first published in 1984, has both a geomorphic and a hydrologic message. It examines and analyses the role of groundwater in landscapes in a series of articles by authors of diverse backgrounds and experience.
