Landscapes and Landforms of Germany

Edited by Frank Lehmkuhl,Michael Krautblatter,Margot Böse

ISBN13: 9783031778759

Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG

Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Format: Hardback

Published: 22/05/2025

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Description
This book covers the Landscapes and Landforms of Germany. It first gives a detailed overview of the geology and regional classification of the landscapes, including the past and present landscape transformations before looking at geomorphological characteristics of individual subregions. These include Northern Germany, the Central Uplands of Germany, the Rhine Rift Valley and South German Scarplands, the Prealpine Area, and the German Alps.
1.Geology and regional classification of landscapes.- 2.Quaternary climate change: Glaciations and periglacial landscape transformation.- 3.The climate of Germany.- 4.Geomorphologies of the German North Sea coast.- 5.The ‘Geest’: NW Germany’s Pleistocene base.- 6.Geomorphology of Schleswig Holstein.- 7.Behre, Peat bogs revised.- 8.Grube, Harburg Hills revised.- 9.Lüthgens, Schorfheide-Chorin area.- 10.Hardt, Berlin, revised.- 11.Kupetz Muskau Arch revised.- 12.Böse , Hardt, Lusatia lignite mines, revised.- 13.Zöller.- 14.Fischer et al.- 15.The Upper Rhine Graben: A diverse endogenic and exogenic shaped landscape.- 16.Hofmann.- 17.Tofelde Schwanghard_Drainage_reorganisation.
  • Geology & the lithosphere
  • Geological surface processes (geomorphology)
  • Professional & Vocational
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