Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Definition of western Canada -- Part I Introductory by Olav Slaymaker -- Structural and lithologic context -- Long-term geomorphological history -- Cordilleran and Laurentide Ice Sheets -- Contemporary geomorphological processes -- Hydroclimate and runoff -- The human footprint -- Part II Structural -- High mountains -- Glaciers -- Glacial landforms -- Periglacial geomorphology -- Big Rivers -- Large lakes -- The Two Coasts (Pacific and Arctic) -- Human Footprint -- Part III Protection of geomorphological heritage by Olav Slaymaker -- World heritage sites -- Provincial and National Parks -- Geotourism -- Index: by subject and location -- Bibliography.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Rio de Janeiro: A Metropolis Between Granite-Gneiss Massifs -- Iguazu Falls: A History of Differential Fluvial Incision -- The Southern Patagonian Andes: The Largest Mountain Ice Cap of the Southern Hemisphere -- The Dry Valleys: An Ancient and Cold Desert in Antarctica -- Drakensberg Escarpment: Mountains of Geomorphic Diversity -- Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders -- Spitzkoppe: The World of Granite Landforms -- Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert -- North-Eastern Niger: Sandstone Landscape of the Sahara -- Afar Triangle: Rift Valleys and Volcanoes over Plate Divergence -- Dolomites: The Spectacular Landscape of the ‘Pale Mountains’ -- Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland: Sandstone Rock Cities and Fascination in a Romantic Landscape -- The Dorset and East Devon Coast: England’s Geomorphological World Heritage Site -- Fjords of Norway: Complex Origin of a Scenic Landscape -- Iceland: Glaciers and Volcanoes in the North Atlantic -- The Dead Sea Graben: Geomorphology of the Lowest Spot on Earth -- The Western Ghat: The Great Escarpment of India -- The Pokhara Valley: A Product of a Natural Catastrophe -- The Loess Plateau of China: Aeolian Sedimentation and Fluvial Erosion, Both with Superlative Rates -- Sanqingshan: The Incredible Granite Peaks of Eastern China -- Guangxi Karst: The Fenglin and Fengcong Karst of Guilin and Yangshuo -- Mt. …”
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