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Twidale, CHarles ROwland was born on April 5, 1930 in Lincolnshire, England. Son of George Wilfred and Gladys May (West) Twidale.
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Granite is exposed over more than 15% of the continents, implying that its significance to the Earth’s surface is comparable to that of the carbonates. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains is devoted to this phenomenon and provides a comprehensive explanation of the landforms and landscapes developed on granitic rocks and forms. Whereas existing literature in the field predominantly deals with karst landscapes, this book is specifically focussed on granitic terrains. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains provides detailed considerations of the forms, major and minor, well-known and not so familiar granitic terrains, developed over large areas of the continents. It comprises interpretations which are of general significance in the analysis and understanding of the landscape and includes many theories in the context of granite landforms. The importance of structure, including crystal stresses, and the value of etching of subsurface initiation, multi-stages or two-stages development, neotectonic forms, solution forms is emphasized as well as the antiquity of some forms and surfaces (inherited forms). Morphogenetic forms are placed in perspective and comparison is made with similar forms in other rock types. This work is intended for geologists, geomorphologists, geographers and mining engineers and can serve both as a practical guide for professionals and as a textbook for university courses. Author, location and subject indices are included.
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(Australian Landforms is concerned with general theories a...)
Australian Landforms is concerned with general theories as applied to the problems posed by the Australian landscape. The book is devoted to the major factors of structure, process, and time, as well as the most recent geological period, called the Quaternary. Chapters deal with structural impacts on landform development, the work of water and rivers, of wind, ice and waves, the time factor, and the events and resultant forms associated with the climatic aberrations of the last two million years. Australian Landforms will interest those concerned with the physical landscape in the context of geology, geography, botany, zoology, ecology, environmental studies, and agricultural science, as well as travelers and others curious about the origins of the Australian landscape.
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(Up to the end of the nineteenth century, landforms were v...)
Up to the end of the nineteenth century, landforms were viewed largely as expressions of the structure of the earth's underlying crust. But such interpretations were concerned for the most part with generalities and broad effects; the subtleties of structural factors became overshadowed first by cyclic explanations and then by the modern emphasis on process and climatic geomorphology. This book arose from the neglect of structural factors in geomorphological interpretation. Nowadays it is recognized that details of jointing and faulting, both past and present, of the stresses in folds, of past conditions of sedimentation, all play an important part in the determination of present landforms. Moreover, today's geomorphologists must think in terms not only of distribution—length and breadth—but also in terms of vertical and temporal change. The author brings this new thinking into Structural Landforms and the result is a book of great interest and importance to students of geography and geology, to teachers and professional geomorphologists. It is particularly rich in photographs and line figures, and includes an excellent bibliography.
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Twidale, CHarles ROwland was born on April 5, 1930 in Lincolnshire, England. Son of George Wilfred and Gladys May (West) Twidale.
Educated Wintringham Grammar School, Grimsby. Bachelor of Science, U. Bristol, 1951, Master of Science, 1953, Doctor of Science, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, McGill University, 1957.
Doctorate. Honoris Causa, U. Complutense, Madrid, 1991.
Research officer, division land research Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, 1952-1957. Member of faculty department geography, geology, U. Adelaide, 1958.
Visiting professor geology and geophysics University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Visiting professor geology University Texas, Austin, 1979.
Nuffield Commonwealth bursary, 1965.
National Science Foundation senior foreign scientist fellow, 1965-1966, also visiting professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New New York Member engineering and earth science panel Australian Research Council, 1992.
Research officer, division land research Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, 1952-1957. Member faculty department geography, geology University Adelaide, since 1958. Visiting professor geology and geophysics University California, Berkeley, 1971.
Visiting professor geology University Texas, Austin, 1979. Nuffield Commonwealth bursary, 1965. National Science Foundation senior foreign scientist fellow, 1965-1966, also visiting professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, honorary research professor Institute Geology, University Coruña, since 2000.
Member engineering and earth science panel Australian Research Council, 1992-1997.
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(Up to the end of the nineteenth century, landforms were v...)
(Australian Landforms is concerned with general theories a...)
Fellow Royal Society South Australia (president 1975-1976, Verco medal 1977), (honorary), Royal Society Western Astralia, Sociedad Española de Geomorfologia.
Married Kathleen Mary Gargini, April 21, 1956. Children: Nicholas, Richard Jonathan, Amanda Elizabeth.