Geohazard Associated Geounits

Download or read book Geohazard-associated Geounits written by L. A. Rivard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally conceived as a technical manual, but now offering the reader so much more, this timely work deals with various aspects of geohazards – surely an area of growing importance in this world of global warming. Using photogeology and remote sensing, Quebecois researcher Rivard’s work is unique in that the succinct text supports the illustrations, and is devised as a quick-reference, standardized presentation of 170 globally occurring photo-geomorphological units.