Landforms and Time

In some parts of the world the shape of the land surface has altered little, even over many millions of years, yet elsewhere significant landform changes may take place quite rapidly, often with serious practical consequences.
Traditional approaches to landform change tended to produce ambitious general theories based on limited evidence from one particular area. `Landforms and Time', is, by contrast, a textbook which acknowledges the wealth of information provided by deep-sea cores in recent years. This new detail has enabled the creation of a precise long-term record of erosional rates and environmental change on adjacent land-masses. As a result, the book's presentation of the wide variety of types of landform change, based on up-to-date and accurate data, renders previous studies obsolete.