Diskussion:William Morris Davis

Bedeutendes was er geleistet hat wäre zum Beispiel seine Zyklentheorie... dazu sollten jedoch ein zwei Sätze erwähnt werden. Auch könnten evtl. Teile aus der englischen Wikipedia-Version übernommen bzw. übersetzt werden... falls ich Zeit finde werde ich das vll mal machen...

aus der englischen WP

"William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 - February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography".

He was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the women's advocate Lucretia Mott). He graduated from Harvard University in 1869 and received a Master of Engineering in the following year. He then worked in Córdoba, Argentina for three years, then after working as an assistant to Nathaniel Shaler, he became an instructor in geology at Harvard, in 1879. (Davis never completed his PhD.) He married Ellen B. Warner of Springfield, Massachusetts in the same year.

His most influential scientific contribution was the cycle of erosion, first defined around 1884, which was a model of how rivers create landforms. Though the cycle is considered overly simplistic today, it was a crucial early contribution to geomorphology. It suggests that (larger) rivers have three main sections: upper course, middle course, and lower course- each of which has distinct landforms and other properties associated with it." Plehn 19:27, 19. Aug 2006 (CEST)

übersetzt und eigefügt. --Matthiasb 18:14, 20. Aug 2006 (CEST)