Landscapes and landforms of South Africa. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stefan Grab, Jasper Knight, editors.
• Editors: Grab, S. W; Knight, Jasper
• Contents: Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa? an overview -- Sandstone Landforms of the Karoo Basin: Naturally Sculpted Rock -- The Mpumalanga/Limpopo Escarpment: Geology and Fluvial Landforms -- Landscape and Landforms of the Vredefort Dome: Exposing an Old Wound -- Geomorphological evolution of the Pilanesberg -- The Drakensberg escarpment: mountain processes at the edge -- Rocky shorelines of the Wild Coast -- The Augrabies Falls region: a fluvial landscape divided in flow but magnificent in spectacle -- The Richtersveld: an ancient rocky wilderness -- The Cederberg: a rugged sandstone topography -- Table Mountain: Wonder of Nature at the Foot of Africa -- The Cape Winelands -- The Kruger National Park: geology and geomorphology of the wilderness -- The Maputaland Corridor: a coastal geomorphological treasure -- Of dunes, depressions and dry valleys: the arid landscapes of the Kalahari Desert -- The Western Free State Panfield: a landscape of myriad pans and lunettes -- The Sterkfontein Caves: geomorphology and hominin-bearing deposits -- Military Geography: Landscapes of the Anglo-Boer War -- Geoheritage and geotourism in South Africa.
• Publisher Details: Cham [Switzerland] : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 916.8; Geography; TRAVEL -- Africa -- General; Geography; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Physical geography & topography; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Soil science, sedimentology; Physical geography; Ecology; Soil conservation; Geological surface processes (geomorphology); South Africa -- Geography; South Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319035604; 3319035606; 3319035592; 9783319035598
• Related ISBNs: 9783319035598
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