Land form geography and land form description

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 3: 69-75

Notes

In his presidential address before the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in 1950, John Kesseli vigorously challenged geographers to discard their traditional approach to the study of land form and to replace it with "a geomorphology a geographer can really use." Classical geomorphology, he declared, "stresses the geologist's interest in diastrophism and in evolution during the geologic past," and does not reflect the geographer's interest in the use of the land, "which demands that principal attention be paid to lithology and to the landforms of today." He recommended that geographers embark upon "an intensive search for regions of similar and of different landform types." He further advocated "clear empirical descriptions of these geomorphic landscapes, descriptions which provide a lucid picture of the scene upon which the human drama is to be unfurled." 2 Thus he called for a study almost wholly descriptive, and much of his address dealt with the process of empirical description itself, its values, its difficulties, and the steps needed to overcome these difficulties.

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Geography--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States

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