Conceptos geomorfológicos infravalorados: corrección, revisión y reposición de algunos de ellos

Abstract

Though the Davisian triad of structure, process and time provides useful guidelines for landscape analysis, it is now an oversimplification. Concepts involving stress and strain (and particularly the formation of lineaments and conjugate shears), reinforcement, underprinting and deferral, etching (two-stage development), unequal activity and referral, positive aspects of weathering, survival of very old surfaces and rivers, and long lineages, which imply multistage origins, are not accorded the attention they merit. On the other hand, climatic control tends to be overemphasized. Structural effects, etching, and river work are azonal. Only climatic extremes find clear expression in the landscape.