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Noun(1) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms

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(1) The Zagros is an example of a young and active orogenic belt where geomorphology and seismicity provide invaluable constraints on the style of deformation, in ways not possible with ancient, inactive orogens.(2) Professional geologists and amateur rock hunters flocked to the White Mountains, regarded as a superb site for the study of geomorphology .(3) Morphotectonics requires input from at least three branches of Earth science: geophysics, geology, and geomorphology .(4) He met the Director of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, a prominent geologist with a special interest in fluvial geomorphology .(5) The western tip of the South Alkyonides Fault is exposed in the surface geology and geomorphology of the Perachora Peninsula.(6) Hydrologists, biologists and geomorphologists are only now discovering many of the complex forces that shape the Mekong Basin.(7) Beginning in Early Miocene time, southward extrusion of the Greater Himalayan Slab has had a profound influence on the geological and geomorphological evolution of the Himalaya.(8) We next review the topographic and geomorphological patterns evident in Scandinavia from the perspective of regional structural geology.(9) You don't have to be a geomorphologist to recognize that when the islands reach an average summer daily population of 225,000, development has created a city floating on a sand spit.(10) Yet the tectonic and geomorphological processes by which these margins continue to evolve long after sea-floor spreading is effected are not wholly evident.(11) According to a coastal geomorphologist , deeper in-shore waters means more powerful waves, which move more quickly and retain more energy.(12) Palaeoseismology is the study of prehistoric earthquakes using geological and geomorphological evidence.(13) In fact, the whole idea of paleosols was first developed by geomorphologists and soil scientists to explore soils in the Quaternary.(14) These geomorphological features, in themselves, suggest recent uplift of the landscape.(15) Modern geomorphologists recognize that mountain-building is a geologically recent event.
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