| Contents |
Introduction. Geomorphology. Erosion. Materials of the Lithosphere. Igneous rocks. Joints. Sedimentary rocks. Flexures. Metamorphic rocks. South African geology. Weathering. The mantle of waste. Movements of the mantle. Landslides. Types of weathering. Mechanical weathering. Chemical weathering. Spheroidal and Honeycomb weathering. Organisms and weathering. Materials resulting from weathering. Factors exerting an influence on the rate and character of weathering. The river cycle. Disposal of rainfall. Rainwash. Donga erosion. River transport. Wearing away of lands. Stream abrasion. Base-level and grade. Degradation and Aggradation. Discordant junctions. Insequent streams. Stream competition. Chracteristics of youthful valleys. Maturity of rivers. Features due to aggradation. The hillslope cycle. Hillslope elements. Pediments. Sheet erosion. Koppies and Inselbergs. Hillslopes and climate. The landscape cycle. Cycles of erosion. The Pediplanation cycle. Soils of Semi-arid regions. Initial stage of the cycle. Stage of youth. Maturity. Old age. Landscape and climate. The influence of rock hardness and structure. General effects. Modification of river valleys. With horizontally-lying strata. Waterfalls. Victoria falls. With inclined strata. River capture. With dykes and sills. With folded strata. The work of wind. Wind transport. Wind-sorting. Action of travelling sand. Wind abrasion. Wind-faceted stones. Pans. Deflation. Deposition under the influence of wind. Roaring sands. Fixation of dunes. Loess. The arid cycle. Deserts. The desert aspect. The cycle of erosion under arid conditions. Coastal deserts. The Kalahari. Underground water and its work. Underground water. Rainfall. Effect of surface and bedrock. Springs. Artesian water. Solution by underground waters. Erosion in areas of soluble rocks. Stalactites and stalagmites. Petrifactions. The cycle of erosion in areas of soluble rocks. Limestone erosion in the Union. Erosion by the sea. The power of waves. Types of waves. The work of waves. Off-shore profiles. With steep initial profile. Profile of equilibrium. With nearly-horizontal initial profile. Currents. Coral reefs. Marine sediments. Origin and classification of coastlines. Glaciation and glaciated landscapes. Glaciers. Glacier movement. The nature of ice-flow. Moraines. Gravel deposits associated with glaciers. Glacial erosion. Classification of glaciers. Mountain-and-valley glaciers. Topographic features due to Alpine glaciation. The cycle of erosion under mountain-and-valley glaciation. Fiords. Continental ice sheets. The Dwyka glaciation of South Africa. Volcanoes and topography. Volcanoes. Materials ejected. The Saki flow. Other lava structures. African volcanoes. Fort Portal explosion craters. Pretoria salt pan. The Kimberlite pipes. Hot springs. Geysers. Mud volcanoes. Fissure eruptions. The Drakensberg basalts. Destructive volcanic action. Subaqueous eruptions. Other phases of igneous action. Erosion of volcanic mountains. Topographic effects of land movement -- Uplift. Premises. Dissection of coastal plains. Regrading of rivers. Multi-cycle or composite topography. Valley-plain terraces. Incised meanders. Dissected plains. Summit planes. Drainage of the new cycle. Multicycle topography in South Africa. Cycles or sub-cycles. Erosion and uplift. Eustasy. Lake shores. Topographic effects of land movement -- Depression. Drowned shorelines. Depression of the African coast. Modification of depressed shorelines. Maturity of depressed coastlines. Effect of depression in the interior. Topographic effects of land movement -- Tilting and Warping. Warping of coasts. The influence of tilting on the lands. Downstream tilting. Upstream tilting. Warping. Antecedent drainage. Warping in Southern Africa. Intersecting. Erosional plains. Topographic effects of land movement -- Fracturing. Faults. Fault-scarps and related phenomena. Block mountains. Shatterbelts. Interpretation of faults. The rift valleys of central Africa. Origin of the rift valleys. Sheet-thrusting. Faults and Strata. The dissection of fault-scarps. Fault-line valleys. Fault-line scarps. Monoclinal scarps. Effects of faulting on topography other than the formation of scarps. Fault coasts. Earthquakes. Buried and ancient topographies. Oldermass and cover. Overlap. Geosynclines and fold mountains. Land-buried topographies. Conditions governing the re-exposure of fossil topography. Superposed drainage. Fossil topography in the Union. The Pre-Karroo landscape. The varying nature of the Karoo cover. Other fossil landscapes in Southern Africa. Complex examples. The geomorphology of Southern Africa. Cardinal principles. The Modus Operandi. Multiplication of cyclic surfaces. The ages of land-surfaces. Outline of the geomorphology. African landscape and climate. Geomorphology of the African territories. The Union of South Africa and South-West Africa. Geomorphologic provinces. The great escarpment. The interior plateau. High veld. Basuto Highlands. Central Transvaal (Bushveld) basin. Northern Transvaal Province. Kaap Plateau. Cape Middle veld. Damaraland. Kalahari. The marginal regions. Limpopo valley. Low veld. Eastern uplands. Zululand coastal plain. Eastern coastal belt. The Karroo. Cape folded belt. Southern coast. Namib. Kaokoveld. Nyasaland. Southern Rhodesia. Northern Rhodesia. Angola. Belgian Congo. Uganda. Kenya. Tanganyika. Portuguese East Africa (Mocambique). |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of Bobby A. Bishop on front pastedown. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Gift of Stan Riggs, 2016 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: King, Lester Charles. South African scenery. 2d ed., rev. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1951 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: King, Lester Charles. South African scenery. 2d ed., rev. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1951 |
| LCCN | 51008725 |
