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The Geomorphic Landscape: The Attributes of Geoforms

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Attributes are characteristics used for the description, identification, and classification of the geoforms. They are descriptive and functional indicators that make the multicategorial system of the geoforms operational. Four kinds of attribute are used: (1) morphographic attributes to describe the geometry of geoforms; (2) morphometric attributes to measure the dimensions of geoforms; (3) morphogenic attributes to determine the origin and evolution of geoforms; and (4) morphochronologic attributes to frame the time span in which geoforms originated. The morphometric and morphographic attributes apply mainly to the external (epigeal) component of the geoforms, are essentially descriptive, and can be extracted from remote-sensed documents or derived from digital elevation models. The morphogenic and morphochronologic attributes apply mostly to the internal (hypogeal) component of the geoforms, are characterized by field observations and measurements, and need to be substantiated by laboratory determinations.

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  1. Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    J. A. Zinck

  2. Institute of Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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  1. Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Joseph Alfred Zinck

  2. Institute of Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Joseph Alfred Zinck  & Graciela Metternicht  & 

  3. Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Gerardo Bocco

  4. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT), Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales (IPEEC), Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina

    Héctor Francisco Del Valle

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Zinck, J.A. (2016). The Geomorphic Landscape: The Attributes of Geoforms. In: Zinck, J.A., Metternicht, G., Bocco, G., Del Valle, H.F. (eds) Geopedology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19159-1_8

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