ABSTRACT
Emphasis throughout the foregoing chapters has been on geomorphological processes and upon how they work rather than upon their effects. The intention has been to provide an introduction to processes which is indicative rather than exhaustive so that further implications might be followed in the signposted reading at the end of each chapter. One raison d'être for this book is the conviction that few previous texts have been devoted concisely and exclusively to exogenetic processes and this conviction was prompted by a criticism often levelled at geomorphology in the first half of the twentieth century that it had neglected process study. By way of a postscript to the preceding chapters we may therefore ask whether greater attention to geomorphological processes is beginning to remedy the deficiencies of the past. Evidence of recent improvements in knowledge of four aspects of process study, namely rates, mechanics, models and applications, suggests that there are grounds for believing that this question may be answered in the affirmative.
