ABSTRACT
Geomorphology, as the scientific study of landforms and land form change, was founded more than a century ago. The word literally means the study of the form of the earth. It has frequently been acknowledged however, that a complete understanding of geomorphological processes is necessary for advancement of our understanding of landforms. Although the necessity for the study of processes has often been stated throughout the history of the science (Chorley, Dunn and Beckinsale 1964, 1973), the record of achievement of the subject shows that until 1960 there was little substantive investigation of processes by geomorphologists. Instead, geomorphology concentrated upon the investigation of landforms and only when the needs arose to estimate the nature of landform change in areas that had not been surveyed in detail, and to predict the future course of change, did a greater concern for the study of processes become more generally accepted.
