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Davisian
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Etymology
From en Davis -ian.
Adjective
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Of or relating to William Morris Davis (1850–1934), American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist.
en 2016 Don Mitchell Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought? https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mitchells-intervention-21.pdf 2 The point is that as fairly static pre-war Davisian geomorphology and Köppenian climate classification gave way to postwar, dynamic, process geomorphology and climate change studies, as geography went through its revolution, the field was radically transformed, geography became–and continues to be–central to and vital for the larger project of understanding global environmental change in all its complexity. Physical things are processural and relational. https://web.archive.org/web/20210618080957/https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mitchells-intervention-21.pdf
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