AuthorGabler, Robert E
TitleEssentials of physical geography / Robert E. Gabler, James F. Petersen, L. Michael Trapasso ; with contributions by Dorothy Sack, Robert J. Sager, Daniel L. Wise
Imprint Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2007
Edition 8th ed
Descript xxvi, 658 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm

CONTENT

Physical geography: earth environments and systems -- Representations of earth -- Earth in space and solar energy -- Atmosphere, temperature, and the heat budget -- Atmospheric pressure, winds, and circulation patterns -- Moisture, condensation, and precipitation -- Air masses and weather systems -- Global climates and climate change -- Low-latitude and arid climate regions -- Middle-latitude, polar, and highland climate regions -- Biography -- Soils and soil development -- Earth materials, the lithosphere, and plate tectonics -- Volcanoes, earthquakes, and tectonic landforms -- Gradation, weathering, and mass wasting -- Underground water and karst landforms -- Fluvial processes and landforms -- Arid landforms and eolian processes -- Glacial systems and landforms -- Global ocean -- Coastal landforms


SUBJECT

  1. Physical geography -- Textbooks

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