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THE GROUNDWORK OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY

by Albert Wilmore; Ethel R. Payne

Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd.. 1954

Very good condition. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged. Brown cloth. Gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xii and 403 pages including index.

Reprint. Covers lightly scuffed. Text block browned. Some browning to contents. Some corner creasing. Some annotation, mostly in pencil. else contents clean.

Stock no. 565032

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Contents

  • SECTION A: THE STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE, OR THE PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL GEOGRAPHY
  • I. The Materials of which the Earth's Crust is made
  • II. Volcanoes and Volcanic Mountains
  • III. Changes upon the Earth's Surface: Epigene Action
  • IV. Land-Forms
  • V. Land-Forms: Mountains of Erosion
  • VI. Land-Forms: Plains
  • VII. Land-Forms: Valleys and Basins
  • VIII. Land-Forms: Lakes and Lake Basins
  • IX. Land-Forms: Coast-Lines and Inlets of the Sea
  • X. Oceanography; or the Geography of the Seas
  • XI. The Economic Geography of the Rocks
  • XII. The Economic Geography of the Rocks (continued)
  • SECTION B: PRINCIPLES OF CLIMATIC GEOGRAPHY
  • XIII. The Atmosphere, Temperature and Rainfall
  • XIV. Climate and Weather
  • XV. Major Climatic Types
  • XVI. Regional Studies in Climate
  • SECTION C: GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS: BIOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY
  • XVII. General Plant Geography
  • XVIII. The Growth and Nature of Soils
  • XIX. Plants and Plant-Products of Economic Importance
  • XX. Plants and Plant-Products of Economic Importance (continued)
  • XXI. Geographical Distribution of Animals
  • SECTION D: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
  • XXII. Man on the Earth
  • XXIII. The Distribution of Population and the Location of Towns
  • SECTION E
  • XXIV. Mathematical Geography and Cartography
  • APPENDIX
  • Questions from Examination Papers in Geography set by various Examining Bodies

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