Landscape

Abstract

WITHIN the last two decades there has been in Britain a marked revival of interest in the study of landscape features. The subject of geomorphology, even in its more limited scope as applied to the understanding of the surface features of the earth, has attracted new workers both from the fields of geology and geography, and fresh methods of investigation have been devised. The study of erosional geomorphology represents perhaps the most important common ground between geology and geography. In the past geologists have varied in the emphasis which they have laid on the study of 'physical geography', but until recently they have treated it mainly as part of an introductory course ; lately there has been a greater tendency to regard it as representing a more important branch of that subject, and to recognize that future progress in the investigation of landscape must depend on workers whose geological training has brought them some acquaintance with the methods of investigation needed for these fields of inquiry.

Landscape

As Developed by the Processes of Normal Erosion. By Prof. C. A. Cotton. Pp. xviii + 302 + 45 plates.(Cambridge: At the University Press, 1941.) 21s. net.