Landforms, Soils and Man in the Tropics
This final section of the book is not going to deal with direct and intentional changes of the geomorphology of a landscape, such as the terracing of slopes or the damming of reservoirs of all sizes, which create a new slope runoff or fluvial regime. In p
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Alfred Wirthmann
Geomorphology of the Tropics Translated by Detlef Busche With 118 Figures and 4 Tables
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Translator: Prof. Dr. Detlef Busche University of Wiirzburg Institute of Geography Am Hubland D-97074 Wiirzburg Germany
Prof. Dr. Alfred Wirthmann University of Karlsruhe Institute of Geography and Geoecology Kaiserstrafle 12 D-76128 Karlsruhe Germany
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wirthmann, Alfred, 1927[Geomorphologie der Tropen. English] Geomorphology of the Tropics / Alfred Wirthmann ; translated by Detlef Busche. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-3-642-08343-3 ISBN 978-3-662-11834-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-11834-4 I. Geomorphology - Tropics. I. Title. GB446 .W5713 1999 551.41'09 13-dc21 Original German edition: Alfred Wirthmann, Geomorphologie der Tropen. 2nd edition 1994. © 1987 by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, Germany. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000
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Preface
Geomorphological studies in the tropics have been made for about years, which is just as long as geomorphology has existed as a subdiscipline of geography or geology. In the beginning those studies were a by-product of regional geographic surveys or geological exploration, carried out by European or North American scientists during relative short stays or even en route. It has only been during the second half of this century that contributions have increasingly been coming from geomorphologists living in those tropical countries, and which are therefore often based on longer or repeated periods of fieldwork. A vast amount of papers on aspects of tropical geomorphology have been published up to now, together with a number of voluminous studies in English and French summarizing and organizing the knowledge. Nevertheless, the
