Traditionally our understanding of ancient cities has been approached through archaeological, historical and literary sources, with little regard or understanding of geology or engineering.
Advances in Geology and Resources Exploration provides a collection of papers resulting from the conference on Geology and Resources Exploration (ICGRED 2022), Harbin, China, 21-23 January, 2022. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in geology, resources exploration and development, and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, business associations, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world. The conference conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on relevant topics such as geology, resources exploration, aiming to provide an academic and technical communication platform for scholars and engineers engaged in scientific research and engineering practice in the field of engineering geology, geological resources and geothermal energy. By sharing the status of scientific research achievements and cutting-edge technologies, this helps scholars and engineers all over the world to comprehend the academic development trend and to broaden research ideas. With a view to strengthen international academic research, academic topics exchange and discussion, and promoting the industrialization cooperation of academic achievements.
"Over the course of his 43-year career, James C. Knox conducted seminal research on the geomorphology of the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin. His research covered wide-ranging topics such as long-term land-scape evolution in the Driftless Area; responses of floods to climate change since the last glaciation; processes and timing of floodplain sediment deposition on both small streams and on the Mississippi River; impacts of European settlement on the landscape; and responses of stream systems to land-use changes. This volume presents the state of knowledge of the physical geography and geology of this unglaciated region in the otherwise-glaciated Midwest with contributions written by Knox prior to his passing in 2012 and by a number of his former colleagues and graduate students"--
This is a more advanced and comprehensive volume on the subject which portrays fully, the concept of rural settlements. The author has gone in detail through his field and personal surveys rather than official sources to present the chronological evolution, toponomy, regional distributions size, spacing, density, dispersion, morphological structure, dwellings and problems and planning of rural settlements. Various physico-cultural and techno-economic variables which exert the spatial distributions of rural settlements, have been dealt with the latest available statistical and cartographic techniques upto a micro-level set up. Copiously illustrated with original maps, diagrams and tables, the study describes in simple language the concepts and recent trends in the subject.