Landscapes and landforms of France

Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs : Fort Monique (Éditeur scientifique), André Marie-Françoise (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Landscapes and landforms of France / Monique Fort, Marie-Françoise André, editors
Publié : Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York [etc.] : Springer , cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-274 p.)
Collection : World geomorphological landscapes (Print)
Sujets :
Documents associés : Autre format: Landscapes and Landforms of France
  • Foreword
  • General introduction to the landscapes and landforms of France / Jean-Pierre Peulvast
  • Paris and the Seine River: antic sites, underground resources, and risks / Monique Fort, Christine Chaussé, Nathalie Vanara, and Gilles Thomas
  • The Seine River from Ile de France to Normandy: geomorphological and cultural landscapes of a large meandering valley / Jean-Pierre Peulvast, François Bétard, and Christian Giusti
  • The High Normandy chalk cliffs: an inspiring geomorphosite for painters and novelists / Stéphane Costa
  • The Mont-Saint-Michel Bay: an exceptional megatidal environment influenced by natural evolution and man-made modifications / Chantal Bonnot-Courtois, Anne-Véronique Walter-Simonnet. and Agnès Baltzer
  • The Pink Granite coast (Northern Brittany) / Yannick Lageat
  • Another Loire: the Armorican Loire / Nathalie Carcaud and Hervé Davodeau
  • The Arcachon Bay estuary: a collage of landscapes / Frédéric Bertrand
  • The volcanic Chaine des Puys: a unique collection of simple and compound monogenetic edifices / Pierre Boivin and Jean-Claude Thouret
  • Velay-Mezenc Massif: harsh volcanic highlands around the Loire River Springs / Emmanuelle Defive and Alexandre Poiraud
  • The Cirque de Navacelles: a major geomorphosite in the Grands Causses karstic region / Martine Ambert
  • The Gavarnie Cirque: a celebrated "Nature's Colossus" / Monique Fort
  • The Têt river valley: a condensed record of long-term landscape evolution in the Pyrenees / Marc Calvet, Yanni Gunnell, and Magali Delmas
  • The Vosgian-Alsatian side of the Rhine Graben: a unique, tectonically controlled and manmade landscape / Jean-Michel Carozza
  • Karstic valleys, vineyards and palafittic settlements of the External Jura / Marie-Françoise André
  • Glacial imprint on the main ridge of the Vosges Mountains / Jean-Luc Mercier
  • On the roof of Europe: high altitude morphodynamics in the Mont Blanc Massif / Philip Deline and Ludovic Ravanel
  • In the folds of the Earth: French Prealpine geomorphological landscapes / Fabien Hobléa
  • The Lower Ardèche River karst landscapes and caves (Lower Rhône Valley) : unique morphologies induced by the Messinian salinity crisis / Ludovic Mocochain and Stéphane Jaillet
  • The Lower Valley and the Delta of the Rhône River: water landscapes of nature and history / Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta and Mireille Provansal
  • Glacial landscapes and protohistoric cultural heritage of the Mount Bego region, Southern French Alps / Jérôme Magail and Patrick Simon
  • Karst memories above and beneath the sea: Marseilles and its continental shelf during the Cosquer cave occupation / Jacques Collina-Girard
  • Scenic granitic landscapes of Corsica / Charles Le Coeur
  • Exceptional coral reef and lagoon geomorphology in French Polynesia / Samuel Etienne
  • La Réunion Island: a typical example of a basaltic shield volcano with rapid evolution / Nicolas Villeneuve, Patrick Bachèlery, and Jacobus Kemp