Titlebook: Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands; Ritienne Gauci,John A. Schembri Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Geography.G

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Cave Dwellers at G?ar il-Kbir: Malta’s Best Documented Troglodytic Communityg) communities. The adoption of a troglodytic lifestyle was made possible due to the prevailing geographies that provided shelter in the cavernous landscape within the Upper Coralline Limestone stratum, as well as the presence of adequate hydrological resources. Jean Quintin d’Autun is the first kno

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Malta’s Submerged Landscapes and Landforms that were progressively inundated during the postglacial sea-level rise. Remarkably, geomorphological features due to fluvial, gravity-induced and karst processes that took place under former subaerial conditions can be clearly recognised on the present seafloor around the Maltese archipelago, and

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Palaeosoils: Legacies of Past Landscapes, with a Series of Contrasting Examples from Maltathe framework through which soils of the past can be studied. Although only a relatively few Quaternary depositional sequences are observable on the Maltese Islands almost without exception, they all contain palaeosoil material. The specific sites discussed (Marfa ridge, Santa Maria Bay (Comino), St

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The Terraced Character of the Maltese Rural Landscape: A Case Study of Buskett Areag one of the few regions still boasting fully fledged agriculture, the Buskett woodland is an exemplary case. Steep slopes along the Luq watercourse were altered into cultivatable stepped formations. These were occupied for agriculture as a consequence of critical fertile and flat land shortage bein

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The Spectacular Landslide-Controlled Landscape of the Northwestern Coast of Maltaerent stages of evolution. The generation of landslides has been favoured by the geological situation, which comprises a highly jointed limestone cap rock cropping out above marls and clays. It is because of its aesthetic and natural value, plus its scientific and historic interest, that the northwe

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Fomm Ir-Ri? and the Vigorous Nature of Its Shingle Beachesresponse to tectonic forces and lithology. The coastal morphology is shaped by plunging cliffs to the south of the western extremity of Malta’s Great Fault. Slopes in Blue Clay and scree slopes (in Maltese language ‘rdum’) dominate in the north, where both past and current processes of mass movement

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A Coastal Enclave Worth Conserving: Xatt L-A?mar (the ‘Red Coast’, Gozo)the reddish hues of the surrounding soils and of the sand it contains. The site is a treasure trove both for geologists and geomorphologists, because of the variety of its landforms (e.g. the widest shore platform on Gozo), and for naturalists, in view of numerous, highly restricted floral and fauna