Assignment Instructions
The Australian and New Zealand landmasses display a diverse array of landforms that are the culmination of both endogenic and exogenic processes. The dominant processes, however, may be quite different in each country, as a result of their differing geological history, tectonic setting and climates.
Your task in this assignment is to:
- Compare and contrast the dominant endogenic and exogenic processes shaping a relatively old (Australia) and young (New Zealand) landmass. In your answer, explain why the relative influences of the endogenic and exogenic processes you have identified differ between the two landmasses.
Recommended Reading
- Twidale and Campbell (2005) Australian Landforms: A understanding a low, flat, arid and old landscape. Rosenberg Publishing, Sydney, Australia. 336p
- Stevens (1980) New Zealand adrift : the theory of continental drift in a New Zealand setting, A.H. & A.W. REED LTD, Sydney, Australia 442p