History of Geomorphology

K.J. Tinkler

• 1. On the Nature of Geo-History, with Reflections on the Historiography of Geomorphology Gordon L. Herries Davies 2. Les Méconnus: Eighteenth Century French Pioneers of Geomorphology François Ellenberger 3. Worlds Apart: Eighteenth Century Writings on Rivers, Lakes and the Terraqueous Globe Keith Tinkler 4. James Hutton’s Role in the History of Geomorphology Dennis R. Dean 5. The Turning of the Worm: Early Nineteenth Century Concepts of Soil in Britain – the Development of Ideas and Ideas of Development, 1834-1843 Brian T. Bunting 6. James Forbes on the Mer de Glace in 1842: Early Quantification in Geomorphology Frank F. Cunningham 7. ‘Extraordinary and terrifying Metamorphosis’: On the Seismic Causes of Slope Instability David Alexander 8. From Colonial science to Scientific Independence: Australian Reef Geomorphology in the Nineteenth Century D.R. Stoddart 9. European Science in High Asia: Geomorphology in the Karakoram Himalaya to 1939 Kenneth Hewitt 10. Eustasy to Plate Tectonics: Unifying Ideas on the Evolution of the Major Features of the Earth’s Surface R.P. Beckinsale and R.D. Beckinsale 11. Reconstructing the Chronology of Lake Bonneville: an Historical Review Dorothy Sack 12. Different Aspects of Polish Geomorphology: Palaeogeographic, Dynamic and Applied Leszek Starkel 13. A Tribute to John Hack by his Friends and Colleagues Compiled by Waite R. Osterkamp 14. A Perspective on Geomorphology in the Twentieth Century: Links to the Past and Future John D. Vitek 15. Afterword Mott T. Greene