Definition and Fundamental ConecptsGeomorphology, if we go by the Greek roots of the term, would mean ‘a discourse on forms of the earth's surface'. Initially, the subject was concerned with unravelling the history of landform development, but now it is also concerned with understanding the processes which create landforms and how these processes operate....
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Space Expedition
Famous astronomers John Couch Adams: (Britain, 1819-92) studied the Leonid meteor shower and predicted the existence of Neptune, which was discovered in 1846.
Edward Emerson Barnard: (USA, 1857-1923) discovered Barnard's Star and Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter.
Nicolaus Copernicus: (Poland, 1473-1543) showed that the Sun was at the centre of the Solar...