California Landscape : Origin and Evolution / Mary Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Mary, 1923- author.

Series:

California natural history guides ; Volume 48.

California Natural History Guides ; Volume 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geomorphology--California.

Geomorphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Sources and Acknowledgments

"The shape of things to come ..."

1. THE MANY FACES OF TIME

2. ROCKS, AND ROCKS FROM ROCKS

3. THE LAY OF THE LAND

4. VOLCANOES

5. WATER—AGENT OF CHANGE

6. RIVERS OFICE - RESHAPING THE LANDSCAPE

7. CHANGE THROUGH EARTH MOVEMENT

8. WHERE THE LAND MEETS THE SEA

9. THE DYNAMIC DESERT

10. THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE

Glossary

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520324275

0520324277

OCLC:

1198931808