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Landscapes Around Us

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This chapter provides a series of cases studies with which to view the processes described in the previous chapters. The focus is the British Isles but we also include a trip to the Amazon.

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Bennett, M.R. (2022). Landscapes Around Us. In: Our Dynamic Earth: A Primer . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90351-0_11

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