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On the meaning and use of the terms, ‘erosion’and ‘exhumation’
(2017)
[Abstract] It is important that technical terms with agreed meanings are used correctly. This applies particularly to words that reflect their etymology. Neglect of this principle distorts information and compromises the ...
Playas of inland Australia
(Universidade da Coruña, 2010)
[Abstract] Playas, mostly in the form of salinas, are characteristic of the Australian arid zone. Many are
associated with lunettes in sebkha complexes or assemblages and can be attributed to the deflation
of bare alluvial ...
Models of landscape evolution and the survival of Palaeoforms
(Universidade da Coruña, 1997)
[Abstract] Qne ofthe factots rnitigating against the recognition and acceptance ofvery old palaeosurfaces was, and in sorne rneasure rernains, the tacit acceptance ofsorne ofthe better known rnodels oflandscape evolution. ...
Multistage Landform Development in Various Settings and at Various Scales
(Universidade da Coruña, 2002)
[Abstract] That many landforms have their origins in the distant past is highlighted by the multistage concept, whereby the structural properties of bedrock which have been exploited
by shallow groundwaters are taken fully ...
La iniciación subsuperficial de las formas graníticas y sus implicaciones en las teorías generales de evolución del paisaje
(Universidade da Coruña, 1989)
La antigüedad del paisaje australiano: pruebas e implicaciones
(Universidade da Coruña, 1989)
Pruebas morfológicas y estructurales sobre el origen de las fracturas de descamación
(Universidade da Coruña, 1995)
[Abstract] Sheet fractures are well and widely developed in massive rocks, i.e., rocks lacking other partings, and they have been discussed in the literature for more than a century. Yet there is no agreement as to their ...
The Pangaean inheritance
(Universidade da Coruña, 1994)
[Abstract] Very old palaeosurfaces have been identified and dated in several parts of the former Gondwana and Laurasia. In Australia the separation from Antarctica was complete by the end of the Eocene so that any surface ...
Bornhardts, Bouldes and Inselbergs
(Universidade da Coruña, 1995)
[Abstract] Bornhardts are steep-sided domical hills. The profiles are associated with sheet
fractures, and their plan form with steeply dipping fractures of orthogonal or rhomboidal systems. They are well developed in ...
Lithologic and climatic convergence in granite morphology
(Universidade da Coruña, 1995)
[Abstract] The major and minor forms eommon to granite (and related erystalline lithologies) and to daeite, sandstone and limestone are listed and briefly deseribed. Faetors eondueive to lithologie eonvergenee (the development ...