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Basement Regions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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Basement Regions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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A major area of interest in French geomorphology during the last
quarter of a cen- tury has been to understand denudation
chronologies and the legacies of environ- mental change in shield
regions. The mechanisms and consequences on landform patterns of
differential erosion in plutonic,metamorphic and related cover
rocks have been approached from the double angle of structural
landforms in the landscape and petrographical,mineralogical and
geochemical analysis in the laboratory. The detailed study of
layered igneous intrusions has been particularly helpful in making
progress more generally in the understanding of crystalline
landform configurations of base- ment terrains. The Laboratoire de
Geographic Physique CNRS-URAiai. nowreformed as twin research units
(Paris: CNRS-UMR8591,and Clermont-Ferrand: CNRS-UPRES- A6042), and
itsprecursor research group at the Sorbonne under the guidance of
Pierre Birot,constituted the spawning ground for French research on
the geomorphology of basement terrains. Alain Godard masterminded
much of the research synthesised in this volume,which isbased on
apreviously publishededition in French. YannickLageat and
Jean-Jacques Lagasquie have not only upheld the spirit of this
school of geomor- phology but also introduced novel concepts and
methods to the investigation of crys- talline terrains. They have
also maintained geomorphological research abreast of con-
temporarydevelopments in the geosciences. YanniGunnell translated
the original text into English, adapted the figures and introduced
a measure of editing, updating and explicating in order to make the
volume more accessible - not only to a non franco- phone audience,
but to an audience unfamiliarwith the intellectual undercurrents
and 30 years.
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