About the Book

Geomorphology is an eclectic subject, drawing from geology, physical geography, soils and atmospheric sciences, civil and environmental engineering, and still other fields. The third edition of Bloom’s outstanding, classroom-tested text reflects the diversity of geomorphology, synthesizing its principles to make them accessible to students and practitioners from all disciplines. Bloom covers all of the major constructional and erosional processes of landform creation and change with separate sections devoted to glaciation and coastal geomorphology. Each set of processes and the resulting landforms are explained in a separate chapter, providing a comprehensive, nonmathematical overview. Profuse examples and illustrations represent landforms from around the world, avoiding the regionalism pervading other texts in the field.

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Contents

Part I. FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOMORPHOLOGY

•  The Scope of Geomorphology

•  Energy Flow in Geomorphic Systems

Part II. CENOZOIC TECTONISM AND CLIMATES: THE MODERN LANDSCAPE EVOLVES

•  Cenozoic Tectonism

•  Cenozoic Climate Change

Part III. CONSTRUCTIONAL PROCESSES AND CONSTRUCTIONAL LANDFORMS

•  Tectonic Landforms

•  Volcanoes

Part IV. SUBAERIAL DESTRUCTIONAL (EROSIONAL) PROCESSES AND EROSIONAL LANDFORMS

•  Rock Weathering

•  Karst and Speleology

•  Mass Wasting and Hillslopes

•  The Fluvial Geomorphic System 

•  Evolution of the Fluvial System

•  Structural Control of Fluvial Erosion

•  Arid and Savanna Landscapes; Eolian Processes and Landforms

•  Periglacial Geomorphology

•  Landscape Evolution

Part V. GLACIERS AND GLACIATION

•  Glaciers as Landforms: Glaciology

•  Glacial Geomorphology

•  Late Quaternary Climatic Geomorphology

Part VI. COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY

•  Shore-Zone Processes and Landforms

•  Explanatory Description of Coasts 

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About the Author / Editor

Arthur L. Bloom, Professor Emeritus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

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