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Twenty‐one years of German geomorphology
Author(s) -
Bremer Hanna
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
earth surface processes and landforms
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9837
pISSN - 0197-9337
DOI - 10.1002/esp.3290090307
Subject(s) - denudation , geomorphology , geology , regolith , discontinuity (linguistics) , german , physical geography , earth science , geography , archaeology , paleontology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , astrobiology , tectonics
In recent decades, German geomorphology has been mainly concerned with climatic and climato‐genetic geomorphology. The first is the study of processes, especially of process combinations in different climato‐morphological zones. The second is concerned with the way exogenic forces control the evolution of relief in a certain region. This study of relief generations differs fundamentally from denudation chronology. Certain principles developed as knowledge of these fields has grown, such as the variability of rock resistance with climate and discontinuity of processes in both space and time, are considered. In recent years new trends, based mainly on climatic geomorphology, have been towards greater specialization in fields such as quantitative geomorphology, geomorphological mapping, and laboratory analysis of regolith and soil samples.