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The Changing Face of the Earth
Image: The leading edge of a 200 m high dune falls into the dry Tsauchab River valley, near Sossusvlei,...
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Uploaded on Aug 18, 2010
The range of methods for dating sediments has increased greatly.
The methods available for measuring the change in geomorphological environments have increased both...
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Uploaded on Aug 18, 2010
Monitoring and dating landscape change.
Fifty years ago geomorphologists were concentrating upon either long-term landscape change or short term...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2010
Global environmental change has always affected the Earth's land surface and has been the subject of many geomorphological investigations, but today is of even greater interest.
There has been a great expansion of studies in the Kalahari since the late 1960s – new roads have opened...
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Future challenges
Future challenges for the BGRG (now BSG) include achieving a more holistic approach and deciding whether...
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In recent decades geomorphology has become more dedicated to specific applied problems, such as flood defence.
Where specific problems are addressed it is often necessary to predict processes, events, or potential...
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Geomorphological research has become increasingly multidisciplinary involving collaboration with scientists from other disciplines.
Geomorphologists work at the dynamic interface of Hydrology, Geomorphology and Plant Ecology, illustrated...
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Geomorphological studies of environmental hazards.
Environmental problems for most of the 20th century which were the jurisdiction of engineers are now...
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Natural systems exhibit many natural analogues: in this case, a branching stream network, and the structure of a leaf.
Today, building on work from the 1930s to the1960s, self-organisation and fractal geometries are widely...
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GIS has enabled great strides to be made in geomorphological analysis.
Computer-based systems for the storage, integration and spatial analysis of layers of digital information...
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Models have always underpinned geomorphological enquiry.
Models have always underpinned geomorphological enquiry but geomorphological modelling was explicitly...
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The last 50 years of geomorphology have been shaken by the opportunities offered by remote sensing – and further positive developments have yet to come.
Much of the world is now covered by SRTM data (at 90 m resolution; 30 m for the conterminous USA). The...
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Plane tabling in extreme conditions
For a discipline concerned with the shape of the land surface, the geomorphologist in 1960 was faced with...
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Linking processes and landforms can be achieved by long-term monitoring.
The Highland Water research project was set up by the School of Geography at the University of...
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A major focus of process geomorphology has been unravelling the physics of processes, quantifying the rates at which they occur and describing them using models that allow us to simulate landform development and make predictions.
From early work leading to important publications like Carson and Kirkby’s Hillslope Form and Process in...
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Fieldwork and experimentation have always been a key part of geomorphological enquiry.
Top left image: Laboratory experiments in the 1970s and 1980s used environmental cabinets to simulate...
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Mapping to provide a permanent record of the character of the face of the Earth was the reason for bringing geomorphologists together 50 years ago to form the BGRG.
Morphological mapping schemes, emphasising slope, were the subject for discussion at early meetings of...
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UK geomorphologists have made, and continue to make, substantial contributions to the measurement, understanding and modelling of the forces and stresses applied to Earth surface materials.
UK geomorphologists have made, and continue to make, substantial contributions to the measurement,...
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