Canadian geomorphology 2000

Clague, John J.; Slaymaker, Olav

doi:10.1016/s0169-555x(99)00097-5

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“…Speculatively, this may have resulted from: (1) increased research infrastructure capacity and/or funding opportunities, as discussed above, (2) new programs for graduate student training during this time (e.g., NSERC Industrial Scholarships, etc.) and/or (3) increased efforts of Canadian scholars in organizing conferencebased or synthesis-style special issues in leading journals (e.g., Clague and Slaymaker 2000;Hassan and Church 2002;Livingstone and Nickling 2004;Walker and Roy 2005;Church et al 2006). These publications have done much to spotlight leading-edge research conducted by Canadian scholars, from both historical (i.e., Quaternary) and process-based perspectives, to the international research community.…”

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Changing views in Canadian geomorphology: are we seeing the landscape for the processes?

Walker¹

2010

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Geomorphology in Canada, as elsewhere, has evolved into an essentially bipartite discipline focusing either on ‘process’ or broader ‘historical’ (Quaternary) landscape interpretation. A growing emphasis on process‐oriented research that relies increasingly on instrumentation and computational technologies has occurred. Critics of such research note limited applicability for landscape evolution, fashionability of methods and limited societal relevance. Indeed, some say we are not seeing the landscape for the processes. This article discusses the changing nature of geomorphology since the Quantitative Revolution of the 1950s including new advances, recent trends and challenges. Publication trends and recent advances suggest that the discipline is very healthy (following a slump in the early 1990s) and continues to evolve, which may reflect increasing research infrastructure and/or funding opportunities and new publications spotlighting Canadian research. Unfortunately, fundamental (less applied) research is threatened by funding program shifts, changing institutional pressures and a decline in research capacity from retirement attrition, and student recruitment challenges. Three research priorities are recommended: (1) continued fundamental research, (2) more integrated modelling to link micro scale processes to macro scale landform behaviour and (3) improvements in profiling our discipline amongst students and related professionals.

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Changing views in Canadian geomorphology: are we seeing the landscape for the processes?

Walker¹

2010

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…Pre-Quaternary landscape development and associated weathering remnants have also been investigated in Canada (Chalmers, 1898;Lasalle and de Kimpe, 1989;Bouchard et al, 1995;Bouchard and Jolicoeur, 2000;Jansson and Lidmar-Bergström, 2004). Yet long-term geomorphology studies are rare in that region (Clague and Slaymaker, 2000;Bouchard and Jolicoeur, 2000: 233) and therefore only a few terms have been used to describe preQuaternary landforms.…”

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Terminology of long-term geomorphology: a Scandinavian perspective

Ebert

2009

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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In this paper the terminology used in long-term geomorphology is evaluated. Long-term geomorphology is the study of landforms that are of mostly pre-Quaternary, Cenozoic, Mesozoic or even Palaeozoic age. Many terms have been introduced to name the long-term large-scale landforms that persist to the present. The defi nitions of many of these terms are ambiguous, have changed over time, and their use and meaning is consequently often unclear. An attempt is made to clarify defi nitions, when possible, and to facilitate more concise usage of these terms. Long-term geomorphology deals in great parts with the lowering of a land surface to the base level (mostly sea level), leaving a new land surface. The largest group of terms concerns descriptions and genetic models for these kinds of new land surfaces collectively called 'base level surfaces' here. Other terms discussed here relate to relict and preglacial landforms and regional terms for stepped surfaces. Terminology is discussed with particular reference to examples from and its use in Scandinavia. There is a long history of long-term geomorphology study in this region. Scandinavia is unique in the respect that pre-Quaternary landforms were repeatedly covered by Quaternary ice sheets but often survived with different degrees of glacial modifi cation.

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The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change

Sörlin¹

2009

Nature's End

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Canadian geomorphology 2000

Cited by 4 publications

References 56 publications

Changing views in Canadian geomorphology: are we seeing the landscape for the processes?

Changing views in Canadian geomorphology: are we seeing the landscape for the processes?

Terminology of long-term geomorphology: a Scandinavian perspective

The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change

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