Walther Penck
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German geographer
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Walther Penck's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of Vienna
Why Is Walther Penck Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walther Penck was a geologist and geomorphologist known for his theories on landscape evolution. Penck is noted for criticizing key elements of the Davisian cycle of erosion, concluding that the process of uplift and denudation occur simultaneously, at gradual and continuous rates. Penck's idea of parallel slope retreat led to revisions of Davis's cycle of erosion.
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