The Basos provides a detailed description and analysis of the key concepts, ideas, and hypotheses that inform Geomorphology. This text: explains the basic concepts of landform science in twenty chapters, each with a major theme, and cross referenced to other concepts, uses the idea of the 'geomorphic system' to organise entries in lour sections dealing with contexts, functions, adjustments, and drivers for future systems, System contexts: The Systems Approach / Uniformitarianism / Landform / Form, Process and Materials / Equilibrium / Complexity and Non-linear Dynamical systems, System Functioning: Cycles and Cascades / Force-Resistance /Geomorphic Work/ Process-form Models, System Adjustments: Timescales / Forcings / Change Trajectories / inheritance and Sensitivity / Anthropocene, Drivers for the Future: Geomorphic Hazards / Geomorphic Engineering / Prediction and Design, provides exhaustive web resources to enable further inquiry and research in greater depth In-depth discussion of the key concepts that define Geomorphology, in one unique resource, fully supported by Web-based materials. Aligned with the teaching literature, this innovative text provides a fully-functioning learning environment for study, revision, and even self-directed research for upper level undergraduates and early-stage postgraduates. Book jacket