biography
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| (1858–1945)
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| biography:
| Geographer and geologist, born in Leipzig, EC Germany. He studied at Leipzig, and was appointed to a professorship of physical geography at Vienna (1885–1906) and Berlin (1906–26). He examined the sequence of past Ice Ages, providing a basis for later work on the European Pleistocene. In 1894 he produced his classic Morphology of the Earth's Surface. He identified six topographic forms, and is believed to have introduced the term geomorphology. |
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