Landscapes and Landforms of Germany

This book covers the Landscapes and Landforms of Germany. It first gives a detailed overview of the geology and regional classification of the landscapes, including the past and present landscape transformations before looking at geomorphological characteristics of individual subregions. These include Northern Germany, the Central Uplands of Germany, the Rhine Rift Valley and South German Scarplands, the Prealpine Area, and the German Alps.

Sommario

1.Geology and regional classification of landscapes.- 2.Quaternary climate change: Glaciations and periglacial landscape transformation.- 3.The climate of Germany.- 4.Geomorphologies of the German North Sea coast.- 5.The 'Geest': NW Germany's Pleistocene base.- 6.Geomorphology of Schleswig Holstein.- 7.Behre, Peat bogs revised.- 8.Grube, Harburg Hills revised.- 9.Lüthgens, Schorfheide-Chorin area.- 10.Hardt, Berlin, revised.- 11.Kupetz Muskau Arch revised.- 12.Böse , Hardt, Lusatia lignite mines, revised.- 13.Zöller.- 14.Fischer et al.- 15.The Upper Rhine Graben: A diverse endogenic and exogenic shaped landscape.- 16.Hofmann.- 17.Tofelde Schwanghard_Drainage_reorganisation.

Riassunto

This book covers the Landscapes and Landforms of Germany. It first gives a detailed overview of the geology and regional classification of the landscapes, including the past and present landscape transformations before looking at geomorphological characteristics of individual subregions. These include Northern Germany, the Central Uplands of Germany, the Rhine Rift Valley and South German Scarplands, the Prealpine Area, and the German Alps.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Margot Böse (Editore), Michael Krautblatter (Editore), Frank Lehmkuhl (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2025, ritardato
• EAN: 9783031778759
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3177875-9
• Pagine: 702
• Illustrazioni: VI, 702 p. 341 illus., 325 illus. in color.
• Serie: World Geomorphological Landscapes
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geologia; Geographie, Geography, Regionale Geographie, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Alps, Geologie und die Lithosphäre, geology, Regional Geography, Geomorphology, Climate Sciences, geomorphological landforms, geomorphology of germany, loess landscapes, german coasts, karst landscapes, drainage basin morphology, danube valley landscapes, rhine valley landscapes, alpine geomorphology, geological landforms