B URBANK , D. W. & A NDERSON , R. S. 2000. Tectonic Geomorphology . x+274 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Science. Price £52.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 632 04386 5.

Geomorphology, the study of the external form of the Earth, has undergone its own evolutionary transformation in the past 40 years, parallelling and interacting with profound changes effected in geology by plate tectonics. The overlap and cross-fertilization between the two disciplines is nowhere more obvious than in the realm of Quaternary Science and in the definition of the younger interdisciplinary field of Environmental Sciences or, to give a recent bandwagon term, Earth Systems Studies. Whilst many widely-used introductory geology and geomorphology textbooks now give adequate coverage to concepts of traditional geomorphology, they usually fail to capture the breadth of interdisciplinarity required for the successful study of tectonic geomorphology; Burbank & Anderson now provide us with the near-perfect alternative at a …