Climatic geomorphology: a critique
@article{Twidale1994ClimaticGA, title={Climatic geomorphology: a critique}, author={Charles Rowland Twidale and Yannick Lageat}, journal={Progress in Physical Geography}, year={1994}, volume={18}, pages={319 - 334} }
Though climatic geomorphology has long been perceived as providing a realistic framework for landform analysis, only the arid, nival and glacial systems and some constructional forms on the coast are readily identified in the landscape, present and past, as climatically zonal in character. Of course these features together account for a substantial part of the Earth's land surface at present. Nevertheless, the remaining areas have been subdivided into morphogenetic regions said to be…
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