The relationship of climate to land-surface morphology and genesis has been investigated by numerous writers for well over half a century. Such studies have focused in part upon interpreting erosional cycles, but more importantly they have to an increasing degree been oriented toward understanding the areal variation of specific surface forms and geomorphic processes. Especially pertinent to the geographer are recent attempts in the United States, and particularly by Julius Budel in Germany, to use climatic influence as a basis for establishing morphogenetic and climato-genetic regions. EVERAL papers published in the Ani1a1.s LUTZ HOLZNER AND GLEN D. WEAVER December 40 This would account for the steplike longitudinal profiles characterizing the Congo, Niger, Nile, and other tropical rivers.
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