Table of Contents

The Mackenzie Delta: An Archetypal Permafrost Landscape.- The South Nahanni: High-Latitude Limestone Landscapes.- Channeled Scablands: A Megaflood Landscape.- Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out.- Canyonlands and Arches: Windows on Landscapes in the American Southwest.- Grand Canyon: The Puzzle of the Colorado River.- Parícutin Volcano: To the Other Side.- The Cockpit Country of Jamaica: An Island Within an Island.- The Gran Sabana: The World’s Finest Quartzite Karst?.- Rio de Janeiro: A Metropolis Between Granite-Gneiss Massifs.- Iguazu Falls: A History of Differential Fluvial Incision.- The Southern Patagonian Andes: The Largest Mountain Ice Cap of the Southern Hemisphere.- The Dry Valleys: An Ancient and Cold Desert in Antarctica.- Drakensberg Escarpment: Mountains of Geomorphic Diversity.- Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders.- Spitzkoppe: The World of Granite Landforms.- Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert.- North-Eastern Niger: Sandstone Landscape of the Sahara.- Afar Triangle: Rift Valleys and Volcanoes over Plate Divergence.- Dolomites: The Spectacular Landscape of the ‘Pale Mountains’.- Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland: Sandstone Rock Cities and Fascination in a Romantic Landscape.- The Dorset and East Devon Coast: England’s Geomorphological World Heritage Site.- Fjords of Norway: Complex Origin of a Scenic Landscape.- Iceland: Glaciers and Volcanoes in the North Atlantic.- The Dead Sea Graben: Geomorphology of the Lowest Spot on Earth.- The Western Ghat: The Great Escarpment of India.- The Pokhara Valley: A Product of a Natural Catastrophe.- The Loess Plateau of China: Aeolian Sedimentation and Fluvial Erosion, Both with Superlative Rates.- Sanqingshan: The Incredible Granite Peaks of EasternChina.- Guangxi Karst: The Fenglin and Fengcong Karst of Guilin and Yangshuo.- Mt. Fuji: The Beauty of a Symmetric Stratovolcano.- Mulu: The World’s Most Spectacular Tropical Karst.- Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas): Inselbergs of Central Australia.- Bungle Bungle: Tower Karst in Sandstone.- Wellington’s Tectonic Landscape: Astride a Plate Boundary.- Pacific Atolls: A World Apart.- World Heritage and Geomorphology.

About the Author

The editor Piotr Migon is Professor of Geography at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. In 1997-2001 he was the Secretary of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG). His publications include ‘Granite Landscapes of the World’ (2006), co-editing of ‘Encyclopedia of Geomorphology’ (2004) and many papers in peer-reviewed international journals.

Reviews

From the reviews:“The book is to present the most spectacular geomorphological landscapes in the world. … This book is extremely useful … . It is an excellent source of information … among the geomorphological community, but also among a wider earth-scientific readership, as well as among travellers and tourists; it should also find its way to the shelves of schools and university students. … Readers from many countries will now wish that a comparable book will be published describing the geomorphological landscapes of their own country.” (Zbigniew Zwoliński, Geologos, Vol. 17 (1), 2011)