Call number:
PIK L 610-11-0378
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: I Systematic Framework ; 1 Tectonism, climate, and landscape ; 2 The Pleistocene legacy: glaciation ; 3 The Pleistocene legacy: beyond the ice front ; 4 The Holocene environment ; 5 Dynamic and synoptic climatology ; 6 Climatic regionalization ; 7 Surface water hydrology ; 8 Wetlands: a hydrological perspective ; 9 Weathering and soils ; 10 Rivers ; 11 Plant and animal ecology ; 12 Ecoregions ; II Regional Environments ; 13 The far north: a geographical perspective on permafrost environments ; 14 The boreal forest ; 15 Appalachia and the eastern Cordillera ; 16 The great lakes ; 17 Central lowlands and great plains ; 18 The western Cordillera ; 19 Desert environments ; 20 The mediterranean environment of greater California ; 21 Ocean coasts and continental margins ; III Nature in the Human Context ; 22. Human imprints on the primeval landscape ; 23 Agriculture, erosion, and sediment yields ; 24 Urbanization and environment ; 25 Environmental management and conservation
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XV, 551 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
0195111079
Series Statement:
Oxford regional environments
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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