By C. R. Twidale
Organized into 4 elements encompassing 12 chapters, this e-book starts with an outline of granite, together with their features, occurrences, and composition. It then discusses the criteria that impact the weathering of granitic rocks and considers boulders and inselbergs, the all-slopes topography in granite, granite plains and rock basins, granite varieties linked to steep slopes, and scarp foot depressions. The reader is usually brought to the piedmont attitude, grooves or flutings, caves and tafoni, cut up rocks, cracked blocks and plates, and the position of weather within the improvement of landforms on granitic outcrops.
Geologists, geomorphologists, geology scholars, and somebody attracted to geology will locate this e-book super useful.
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