The long-awaited Essentials of Geomorphology textbook was released by Cambridge University Press in January 2026, with the “Landforms Developed on Folded Rocks” chapter written by IUP AGES Department geographer Kevin Patrick, in collaboration with West Virginia University geomorphologist Steven Kite and Michigan State University editor Randall Schaetzl.
Patrick’s contribution comes from years of field tripping through the Appalachian Mountains with students from his Geography of Pennsylvania and Geography of National Parks classes.
Essentials of Geomorphology’s 23 chapters are a tour de force of landform processes written by an international cast of geographers, geologists, and geoscientists.
