Landscapes and landforms of the Czech Republic. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tomáš Pánek, Jan Hradecký, editors.
• Editors: Pánek, Tomáš; Hradecký, Jan
• Contents: Introduction -- Geology and tectonic development of the Czech Republic -- Climate in the past and present in the Czech Lands (Central European Context) -- Long-term geomorphological history of the Czech Republic -- The geomorphological evolution and environmental hazards of the Prague area -- The Bohemian Karst: A condensed record of landscape and living nature evolution -- Brdy Highland: A landscape shaped in the periglacial zone of Quaternary glacials -- Bohemian Forest: landscape and people on the frontier -- Morphology of the youngest little volcanoes in western Bohemian Massif -- The Krušné hory Mountains -- the longest mountain range of the Czech Republic -- Elbe Sandstones -- Neovolcanic terrain of the České Středohoří Mountains -- The Kokořín Area: Sandstone Landforms Controlled by Hydrothermal Ferruginization -- Jizerské hory -- an Interplay of Rock Control, Faulting and Inland Glaciation in the Evolution of a Granite Terrain -- Krkonoše Mountains: a case study of polygenetic relief -- Bohemian Paradise: Sandstone Landscape in the Foreland of a Major Fault -- Adršpach-Teplice Rocks and Broumov Cliffs -- Large Sandstone Rock Cities in the Central Europe -- Žďárské vrchy Highland -- geomorphological landscape in the top part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highland with the unique crystalline rocks forms -- The Dyje canyon-like valley: geomorphological landscape of deep valley at the eastern part of marginal slope of the Bohemian Massif -- The Moravian Karst: An interconnection between surface and subsurface natural sceneries -- Region of the Rychlebské hory Mountains -- tectonically controlled landforms and unique landscape of granite inselbergs (Sudetic Mountains) -- Periglacial landforms of the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains -- Litovelské Pomoraví -- landscape around anastomosing river pattern -- The Nízký Jeseník -- Highland with Abandoned Deep Mines -- Black land: The mining landscape of the Ostrava-Karviná region -- Poodří -- Landscape of Ponds and a Preserved Meandering Belt of the Odra River -- Landslide Landscape of the Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mountains and Their Surrounding -- Strážnické Pomoraví -- Holocene evolution of unique floodplain and aeolian landforms -- Limestone Klippen of the Pavlov Hills -- Geomorphological heritage and geoconservation in the Czech Republic -- Promoting geomorphological heritage: bringing geomorphology to people.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 422 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 551.4; Geography; Landscapes -- Czech Republic; Landforms -- Czech Republic; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Landforms; Landscapes; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Regional geography; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Ecology; Geological surface processes (geomorphology); Czech Republic; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319275376; 3319275372; 3319275364; 9783319275369
• Related ISBNs: 9783319275369
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 15, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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