The surface of the Earth is and always has been in flux, constantly being remodelled by powerful natural forces. This text explores the processes and evidence of change, explaining how to recognize past events in the rocks, guiding through geological time to recreate past landscapes, and illustrating agents of erosion such as water, wind and ice sculpting solid landscapes, rocks amd materials recycling at the Earth's surface, and human impact on global cycles and climate change. This book complements the exhibition entitled "Restless Surface" in the Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London.

 

This book is part of a book series called The Earth .

There are 23 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by The Natural History Museum .

The book is fully checked and approved by the Department of Zoology at the Natural History Museum in London.

This book has the following chapters: What do you mean "surface"?; driven by the sun; time and change; scale and change; breaking up, breaking down; soil; erosion; erosion and landscape; slopes on the move; transport; settling; places to settle; layers, beds and other patterns; reading the changing pattern; from sediment to rock; in and out of solution; limestone landscapes; life into rock; the carbon cycle; carbon dioxide and climate change; studying climate change; complexity and change; reading change in the landscape; UK landscapes.