CLASSIFICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL TYPES OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL FORM IN CHINA
中国地貌基本形态划分的探讨

Geomoronology is a science dealing with the morphology of earth surface. Since the morphology of the earth surface is moulded by combined action of endogenic and exdogenic agencies , attention should be focused on the genesis of morphology in classifying morphological types. By using fuzzy mathematics, this paper gives some ma thematic definitions of mountain, hill, plat-form and plain, and further more, establishes indices for the classification of fundamental morphological types based on the maximum membership princi-ple.Two schemes of more detailed classification of fundamental morphological types have been designed that pay more attention to residual steplike geo-morphological structures and, especially, to the developing ones. Also a brief remark on their merits and demerits has been made