Physical Geography
Physical geography is the study of the processes that shape the Earth’s surface, the animals and plants that inhabit it, and the spatial patterns they exhibit. Self-identified in the mid- to late 1800s, physical geographers and in particular geomorphologists dominated the discipline of geography to...
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199874002-0005 |