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Theoretical Geomorphology

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Geomorphology, in its widest sense, is that branch of the geosciences which concerns itself with the development of the surface features of the Earth. In a more restrictive sense, geomorphology is the science of those surface features whose shape is determined by the action of exogenetic processes, i.e. of processes which originate outside the solid Earth. It is with this latter concept of geomorphology that we shall concern ourselves.

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    Adrian E. Scheidegger (Ph. D. (Toronto); Dipl. Phys. E. T. H. (Zürich) P. Geophys. (Alberta) Associate Professor of Mathematics)

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