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Davisian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Davis + -ian.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to William Morris Davis (1850–1934), American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist.
    • 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. 2016, Don Mitchell, Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021, page 2: