Spatial and Temporal Scales in Geomorphology

S. W.S. Millar

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00009-9

Spatial and Temporal Scales in Geomorphology

S. W.S. Millar

Department of Geography and the Environment

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Abstract

Recognizing and reconciling spatial and temporal scales are central to any question posed by a geomorphologist. This chapter focuses on space and time, why they are inseparable, thus difficult to consider in their entirety. The time-dependent approaches of early geomorphology were displaced by time-independent and process-oriented approaches in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, geomorphology struggles to combine space and time using radionuclide dating, modern spatial technologies, and quantitative techniques. However, different variables become important at different scales. This chapter concludes with some thoughts on how geomorphologists might negotiate the range of spatial and temporal scales that constitute geomorphology's domain.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Foundations of Geomorphology
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	130-145
Number of pages	16
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9780080885223
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00009-9
State	Published - Mar 2013

Keywords

Complexity
Equilibrium and nonequilibrium concepts
Landscape evolution
Process geomorphology
Scale-linkage
Space-time interactions
Spacetime
Spatial scales
Systems theory
Temporal scales
Time-dependent
Time-independent

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Earth and Planetary Sciences
General Environmental Science

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