GEOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF CLIMATIC AND CLIMATO-GENETIC GEOMORPHOLOGY

ABSTRACT

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 Büdel in Germany, to use climatic influence as a basis for establishing morphogenetic and climato-genetic regions.