What is the Meaning & Definition of geomorphology


Geomorphology is the branch of geography that deals with the study of the Earth's surface.
Traditionally, geomorphology has focused on issues such as the forms of relief, while taking into account that they are the product of the lithospheric dynamics in general and that it will also require the contribution of other disciplines such as climatology, hydrography, glaciology, among others for the study of the same.
It would be at the end of the 19th century that the geomorphology would acquire the entity of science and in such a situation a lot had to do the geographer William Morris Davis. Until Davis intervened, he is believed to be the only existing explanation before the relief catastrophism, however, Davis and other peers began to promote that others were the causes responsible for the modeling of the Earth and not catastrophic events.
According to holding the geomorphology, land relief evolves into the dynamics of the geographical cycle from a series of both constructive and destructive processes that in turn are constantly affected by the forces of gravity, which serves as a force balancing valve imbalances mentioned, i.e. causing elevated areas fall and instead be colmen more deprived areas.
Meanwhile, the triggers of these processes include the following: Geography (relief, the climate, the soil and bodies of water, temperature, wind, ice, are all factors that contribute to the modeling of the terrain and also favor erosion processes), biotic factors (opposed to modeling), geological factors (volcanism, tectonics and the orogenesis (, they are constructive processes that also oppose the modeling and disrupt the geographical cycle) and anthropogenic factors (human action is on the relief, and can the same influence either for or against the relief).


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