Exceptionally Concise and Community Vetted
Each chapter is focused specifically on key concepts and underlying principles rather than regional or local examples. The book's philosophy emerged from a National Academy of Sciences workshop on the future of the textbook and the table of contents was determined at a National Science Foundation sponsored retreat where over 60 geomorphologists gathered to identify core concepts and areas of common interest that future geomorphologists need to know.
Consistent Chapter Themes
Each chapter focuses on a consistent structure of themes, including mass transport, energy transfer, and explicit linkages between the processes that shape Earth’s surface and the landforms and deposits those processes leave behind.
Student Support Throughout Each Chapter
- An Outline giving students a pathway of key ideas for the chapter
- A Digging Deeper section posing a key question for students to explore, with in-line citations to relevant literature, figures from important journal articles, and summary of relevant geomorphic thinking
- A Worked Problem at the end of the chapter, taking students step by step through a key quantitative or qualitative exercise
- A Knowledge Assessment for student self-evaluation—a great resource for review and test prep
- Suggested readings, including classic, recent peer-reviewed papers, and reference texts.
Instructor Media
Web-Based Vignettes
With this archive of hundreds of peer-reviewed examples of geomorphology from around the world, Instructors can customize their course, bringing in extra coverage of local events and topics they wish to explore more deeply.
Imaging Earth’s Surface
Adopters have access to the collection of thousands of images for classroom use, drawn from the authors’ archives, public-domain sources and donations from geomorphologists around the world.