Elements of Physical Geography

Elements of Physical Geography
Author: Arthur N. Strahler
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1989
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780471616474

The Fourth Edition of the widely-used physical geography text is updated to relect current knowledge and revised for better readability. Treatment is descriptive, emphasizing the ways in which the physical environment--climate, landforms, soils, and vegetation--affects human activities. Global, physical, geographical patterns are explained as simply as possible in terms of natural processes. Includes new, high quality illustrations and photographs.

Physical Geography

Physical Geography
Author: William M. Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2013
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521764289

A systems-based approach to physical geography written in an easy-to-understand narrative style that is closely integrated with clear, single-concept illustrations.

Physical Geography

Physical Geography
Author: Richard H. Bryant
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1483278476

Physical Geography Made Simple focuses on developments in physical geography, including advancements in the study of landforms, weather, climate, water, soils, plants, and animals. The book first offers information on rocks and relief, weathering, slopes, and rivers and drainage basins. Topics include rock structures and landforms, crustal structure and movement, physical and chemical weathering, measurement and description of slopes, and transport, erosion, and deposition. The manuscript then ponders on glacial and periglacial landforms and desert and uropical landforms. The publication takes a look at coastal features, landscape development, and the atmosphere and its energy. The manuscript also elaborates on moisture in the atmosphere, air motion, general circulation, and weather. Discussions focus on fronts, weather prediction, planetary wind belts, pressure variations, upper air motion, adiabatic processes, and evaporation and condensation. The text is a valuable reference for geographers and readers interested in physical geography.