Earth Surface Systems: Complexity, Order, and Scale (Natural Environment)

earth surface systems: complexity, order, and scale (natural environment)

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Earth Surface Systems: Complexity, Order, and Scale (Natural Environment)

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This book provides a theory to overcome the problem of identifying the principles behind the interdependence of different aspects of nature. Climate, vegetation, geology, landforms, soils, hydrology, and other environmental factors are all linked. Many scientists agree that there must be some general principles about the way in which earth surface systems operate, and about the ways the interactions of the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere manifest themselves. Yet there may be inherent limits on our ability to understand and isolate these interactions using traditional reductionist science. The argument of this book is that the simultaneous presence of order and chaos reflects fundamental, common properties of earth surface processes and systems. It shows how and why this is the case, in examples ranging from evolutionary and geological time scales, to micro-scale examinations of process mechanics.

Earth Surface Systems: Order, Complexity and Scale (Natural Environment),Jonathan D. Phillips,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,1557869340,Earth Sciences - General,Earth Sciences - Geology,Earth sciences,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Environmental sciences,Geology (General),Nature/Ecology,Science,System analysis,CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES,Geological surface processes (geomorphology),Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection

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