Walther Penck

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Walther Penck (August 30, 1888 – September 29, 1923), was an Austrian geographer, born in Vienna as son of Albrecht Penck.

Walther Penck worked 1912-1914 in Argentina as a geographer, and is best known for his contributions to the field of geomorphology. In particular he opposed key elements of the Davisian cycle of erosion, concluding that the process of uplift and denudation occur simultaneously, at a gradual and continuous rate (Huggett, 2003). His book, Morphological Analysis of Landforms, was published posthumously in 1924 by his father Albrecht Penck, a noted geographer.

He died in Stuttgart, Germany.