Open AccessBook Review: Earth’s Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Geographic Features
Author(s) -
Lisa Presley
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n2.178b
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , table (database) , geography , scale (ratio) , earth science , earth (classical element) , earth system science , data science , geology , cartography , library science , computer science , data mining , mathematics , oceanography , mathematical physics
Authors Joyce Quinn and Susan Woodward combine their decades of research, teaching, and knowledge in Earth’s Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Geographic Features. The entries in this two volume set focus on 460 of the natural geographic features of the earth. The introduction provides a wealth of useful background information, including a table of the geologic time scale, a table of major climate types and descriptions of the earth’s major surface features.