This book covers the geomorphology and landscape evolution of South Africa, focusing on arid landscapes, fluvial systems, karst, Quaternary landscapes, macro-scale geomorphic evolution, coastal geomorphology and applied geomorphology. It would appeal to postgraduate students in Physical Geography (Geomorphology) and Physical Geology and all academics in the earth sciences.

The book aims to fill a niche with regard to understanding Earth surface processes and their products in a southern African context. It is an academic text, yet one which will satisfy the lay reader who wishes to learn more about the southern African landscape, and the processes responsible for it.

Contents (brief):

1. Macroscale Geomorphic Evolution

Rodney R Maud

2. Lithological and Structural Controls on Landforms

Peter J Holmes

3. Granite Landscapes

C Rowl Twidale

4. Weathering

Kevin J Hall, K Ian Meiklejohn, Werner Nel, Paul D Sumner

5. Fluvial Geomorphology

Kate M Rowntree

6. Aeolian Systems

David SG Thomas, Giles FS Wiggs

7. Terminal Basins: Lacustrine and Pan Systems

Paul A Shaw, David SG Thomas

8. Duricrusts

David J Nash

9. Periglacial and Glacial Geomorphology

Simon J Carr, Stefan W Grab, Stephanie C Mills

10. Coastal Geomorphology

Greg A Botha, Andrew S Carr

11. Soil Erosion and Land Degradation

Peter J Holmes, John Boardman, M Timm Hoffman, Giles FS Wiggs

12. Landscapes and Environmental Change

Michael E Meadows

13. Applied Geomorphology

Peter J Holmes, Gerald G Garland

14. Landscape Inventories and Remote Sensing

Michael E Meadows, Charles H Barker, Franck D Eckardt

Southern African Geomorphology: The Past and the Future

Andrew S Goudie

Reviews:

"[I regard this book as] the magnum opus of southern African regional geomorphology. ... The editors incorporate contributions by 24 of the most prominent geomorphologists currently research active in their particular geomorphic sub-discipline in southern Africa. ... Each contribution is excellently and comprehensively referenced so that this publication can serve as a very useable bibliography of geomorphological research in southern Africa. Most authors incorporate numerous clear, detailed, illustrative colour photographs and other valuable diagrams which substantially enhance the written contents of each contribution. ... Every geomorphologist, geographer, geography teacher or traveller interested in southern Africa’s unique landscapes should obtain a copy [of this book]. Some decades into the future, this book will ... be viewed as ‘a valuable collector’s item’ amongst geomorphologists." -- Tertius Harmse, from Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg.

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