Written for introductory geomorphology courses, "Key Concepts in Geomorpholog"y offers an integrative, applications-centered approach to the study of the Earth's dynamic surface. Bierman and Montgomery draw from the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics to help students get a basic [...]

Geologist David R. Montgomery heard a Tibetan story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, he began investigating the world's flood stories and, drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers and scientists, discovered the role Noah's Flood [...]

Dirt, soil, call it what you want - it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil[...]

The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has learned to see the evolution and nea[...]