In 1992, the first conference on Braided Rivers was held at the Geological Society of London (Best & Bristow, 1993). It sought to bring together a wide range of practitioners, primarily sedimentologists, geomorphologists and engineers, to review the state-of-the-art in research, and discuss common problems and future research directions.

The landforms of Austria are the direct consequence of a continuous interplay between tectonic and climatic forces that have built, destroyed and reshaped the surface of the most iconic mountain belt on Earth for almost 40 Million years. As such, landforms can only be understood with a thorough geological background. This paper gives an overview of the tectonic evolution, the geological build up and the landscape evolution in the Austrian territory. The tectonic evolution of the rocks forming the major tectonic units of Austria can be traced back to some 500 Million years when they were located at different ancient continents including Gondwana, Avalonia and Laurasia. In the late Palaeozoic, the basement rocks were affected by the Variscan tectonometamorphic event during amalgamation of the supercontinent Pangaea and by a Permian extensional event.

Книга обосновывает и раскрывает принципиально новую трактовку природы карста Предгорного Крыма и его роли в региональном геоморфогенезе. На основе систематических комплексных исследований, включающих современные изотопные и геохимические методы, доказано гипогенное происхождение карстовых полостей в регионе, а также их контролирующая роль в последующем расчленении моноклинали Предгорья и формировании куэстового и останцового рельефа региона.

The photographs in this book cover all the main topics of geomorphology: rivers, glaciation, coasts, deserts, chalk and limestone, coral and volcanoes. However, all the pictures on one topic are not grouped together but are arranged so that pictures of landforms which look similar but have different origins are side by side, or at least close together. This demonstrates one purpose of this book, the recognition of landforms by familiarity with clear photographs of them.

The landscapes and landforms of Scotland are renowned for their outstanding geodiversity, the outcome of a long and complex geological evolution, Cenozoic uplift and etchplanation, and modification by glacial and interglacial processes during the Quaternary.

Siento la necesidad de celebrar este proyecto con las personas que han transitado por mi universo cotidiano, sentimental y laboral, y que han permitido que desarrolle una formación humana y académica, tanto presente como futura. Este trabajo no hubiera sido posible sin el apoyo incondicional de personas que han dejado su huella ferviente en mi ser: en primer lugar, a mi madre Inés M. M. Peralta y a mi padre Osvaldo Ricardo Sironi, quienes con su amor incondicional apostaron su cotidianeidad para mi devenir humano y profesional. En segundo lugar, a mis hermanos Andrés, Mariano y Sebastián; a mis sobrinos/as Juliana, Juan Justo, Lautaro, Victoria, Juan Cruz y Amalia; a mis cuñadas Carolina, Andrea y Paola, como así también a mis numerosos tíos/as, primos/as y sobrinos/as por filiación materna; quienes han tolerado con mucho amor y paciencia mis altibajos personales, brindándome su apoyo constante en la lucha cotidiana (mas allá de la distancia geográfica que nos separa). <...>

1 Introduction to the Landscapes and Landforms of Italy Mauro Soldati and Mauro Marchetti
Part I Physical Environment
2 The Great Diversity of Italian Landscapes and Landforms: Their Origin and Human Imprint Mauro Marchetti, Mauro Soldati, and Vittoria Vandelli
3 Outline of the Geology of Italy Alfonso Bosellini
4 The Climate of Italy Simona Fratianni and Fiorella Acquaotta
5 Morphological Regions of Italy Paola Fredi and Elvidio Lupia Palmieri
Part II Landscapes and Landforms

The variety of Swiss landscapes is due to the combination of varied structural and climatic contexts and a rich geological heritage. The book is divided in three mainsections. The first section presents the physical context and details the variety of Swiss geomorphological landscapes. The second section proposes 23 examples of Swiss landscapes, in three main subsections: eight examples of structural landscapes; nine cases of glacial, periglacial and high mountain landscapes; and six examples of river landscapes and landscapes related to gravity-driven processes. The last section deals with geoheritage, geoparks and geotourism. <...>