Данное издание представляет собой руководство по выполнению заданий лабораторно-практических работ по учебной дисциплине «Инженерная геоморфология» для студентов специальности магистратуры «География».

Climatic Geomorphology constitutes a new look at a fairly old subject that has been largely ignored in other more recent trends in the field, particularly in much process geomorphology. But now Mateo Guti6rrez, well-known Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Zaragoza in northeast Spain, has presented us with this new volume, translated into English by ten of his colleagues.

Geomorphological literature has now become so voluminous that it may seem impractical for an individual writer to attempt to encapsulate it all. Indeed, in the last ten years, the geomorphological market stall has been increasingly stocked with a range of specialized hybrids and a wealth of produce from academic communes involving several workers. However, if the individual student is to be expected to comprehend the scope of geomorphology, clearly it is only fair to expect that a sufficient overview must be within the grasp of the individual writer. Thus, the very reason that cautions against the present exercise is equally its main justification. Ideally, the advantage could be greater cohesion in scope, balance in format and evenness in level of treatment. Therefore, since each of these three aspects stems from different sources in the present blend, some brief introduction to its scope, format and level of treatment is required <...>

The notion that the desert areas of the world possess a distinct geomorphology has a long history and, in many ways, is informed by the popular concept of deserts as places that are different. Not surprisingly, early explorers in deserts, particularly Europeans travelling in the Sahara from the late 18th century onwards, were impressed by, and reported on, the unusual features of these areas.

Much of Europe, from Northern Scandinavia and Iceland to the Southern Iberian Peninsula, has been covered by valley glaciers and extensive ice sheets during long periods of the Pleistocene. Consequently, in both highlands and wide areas of the lowlands (particularly in Sweden, Finland, Northern Russia, and Central Europe) deposits of glacial origin (frontal moraines, different types of tills, lateral moraines, drumlins, and eskers) and other deposits indirectly related to glaciers (fluvioglacial terraces, lacustrine deposits, kames, and outwash plains) can frequently be found.

I have written this book to fulfill a need which exists for a short yet reasonably comprehensive history of geomorphology. I do not neglect the monumental volumes being produced by Chorley, Beckinsale and Dunn (1964, 1973), but the first of these volumes is now out of print and the second is devoted, very necessarily, to a biography of W.M.Davis. The complementary third volume on Davis's contemporaries, and the fourth volume on the period since 1945 have not yet appeared (at the time of writing). The two existing books are excellent reference volumes, and all geomorphologists, including this one, are greatly in debt to them, but they are daunting and expensive to the hard-pressed student who needs a brief guide to the main ideas. <...>

Настоящая работа является третьим выпуском материалов Якутской экспедиции ИМС в 1934 г.
Работа содержит описание стратиграфии с литологической характеристикой свит, тектоники, магматических процессов и геоморфологии Западного Верхоянья, сделанное на основе маршрутного пересечения области из Сангара в Эндыбал и обширного рукописного материала многочисленных геологических партий, работавших в Западном Верхоянье и соседйих областях.
Детально описано открытое партией на р. Чечуме . крупное каменноугольное месторождение.

Книга представит большой интерес для геологов и геоморфологов, работающих в Якутии и ДВК, а также для лиц, \интересующихся тектоникой, связью тектоник^с рельефом и магматическими процессами и типами ледниковых форм.

Проблема современного геоморфогенеза является одной из актуальных и фундаментальных проблем геоморфологии. Всестороннее изучение различных видов современных рельефообразующих процессов важно не только для разработки теоретике - методологических основ геоморфологии и динамической геологии, учитывая возможность широкого использования принципа актуализма в геолого - геоморфологических и физико - географических исследованиях, но и при решении целого ряда важных практических задач.