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Key Concepts in Geomorphology

First Edition ©2013 Paul R. Bierman; David R. Montgomery

Written for introductory geomorphology courses, Key Concepts in Geomorphology offers an integrative, applications-centered approach to the study of the Earth’s dynamic surface. Bierman and Montgomery draw from the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics to help students get a b...
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Key Concepts in Geomorphology by Paul R. Bierman; David R. Montgomery - First Edition, 2013 from Macmillan Student Store

Written for introductory geomorphology courses, Key Concepts in Geomorphology offers an integrative, applications-centered approach to the study of the Earth’s dynamic surface. Bierman and Montgomery draw from the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics to help students get a basic understanding of Earth surface processes and the evolution of topography over short and long timescales. The authors also hone in on practical applications, showing how scientists are using geomorphological research to tackle critical societal issues (natural disaster response, safer infrastructure, protecting species, and more).

Features

Exceptionally Concise and Community Vetted
Each chapter is focused specifically on key concepts and underlying principles rather than regional or local examples. The book's philosophy emerged from a National Academy of Sciences workshop on the future of the textbook and the table of contents was determined at a National Science Foundation sponsored retreat where over 60 geomorphologists gathered to identify core concepts and areas of common interest that future geomorphologists need to know.

Consistent Chapter Themes
Each chapter focuses on a consistent structure of themes, including mass transport, energy transfer, and explicit linkages between the processes that shape Earth’s surface and the landforms and deposits those processes leave behind.
 
Student Support Throughout Each Chapter

  • An Outline giving students a pathway of key ideas for the chapter
  • A Digging Deeper section posing a key question for students to explore, with in-line citations to relevant literature, figures from important journal articles, and summary of relevant geomorphic thinking
  • A Worked Problem at the end of the chapter, taking students step by step through a key quantitative or qualitative exercise
  • A Knowledge Assessment for student self-evaluation—a great resource for review and test prep
  • Suggested readings, including classic, recent peer-reviewed papers, and reference texts.

 

Instructor Media
Web-Based Vignettes
With this archive of hundreds of peer-reviewed examples of geomorphology from around the world, Instructors can customize their course, bringing in extra coverage of local events and topics they wish to explore more deeply.

Imaging Earth’s Surface
Adopters have access to the collection of thousands of images for classroom use, drawn from the authors’ archives, public-domain sources and donations from geomorphologists around the world.

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Table of Contents

PART I Geomorphology and Its Tools
1 Earth’s Dynamic Surface
2 Geomorphologist’s Tool Kit

PART II Source to Sink
3 Weathering and Soils
4 Geomorphic Hydrology
5 Hillslopes
6 Channels
7 Drainage Basins
8 Coastal and Submarine Geomorphology

PART III Ice, Wind, and Fire
9 Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology
10 Wind as a Geomorphic Agent
11 Volcanic Geomorphology

PART IV The Bigger Picture
12 Tectonic Geomorphology
13 Geomorphology and Climate
14 Landscape Evolution

Appendix
Glossary

Paul R. Bierman

Paul Bierman has been a professor of Geology and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont since 1993. His research and teaching expertise focus on the interaction of people and Earths dynamic surface. Bierman is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. For college, he moved north to Massachusetts, where he earned a bachelors degree in Geology at Williams College. After several years working as an environmental consultant in Boston, Bierman moved north again to the University of Washington in Seattle where he earned both a masters and doctoral degree in Geology. After a short post-doctoral interlude far to the south in Australia, Bierman has been a professor at the University of Vermont since 1993.

Bierman's research has taken him around the globe. He has studied erosion in Australia, South America, and several countries in Africa and the Middle East. In Greenland, Bierman and his graduate students are tracing the history of the Greenland Ice sheet over the last million years, an adventure that repeatedly takes them helicoptering over the ice. In Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, Bierman and his students created the first record of storminess and erosion that extended back over the last 10,000 years how many of the past megastorms they identified were hurricanes?

Bierman works extensively communicating science to the pubic. He teaches summer science programs for highly motivated high school students, directs a public web site (www.uvm.edu/landscape) holding over 70,000 photographs of historic Vermont landscapes, has been co-author since 2005 of Pipkin et al., an introductory Environmental Geology textbook, and is the lead author of a new, NSF-funded textbook, Key Concepts in Geomorphology, that uses extensive visuals and photographs to teach about the workings of Earths surface.

David R. Montgomery

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