Course Schedule
Week | Topics | Readings |
1 | Intro and Overview Systems, Scales Relief, Time |
Ch 1-2 pp 1-12 |
2 | Shore Zone Process and Landforms Energy, Erosion, Deposition Process and Time Case- Boston Harbor |
Ch 16 pp 428-470 |
3 | Energy Flows/ Drivers-Mechanical, Chemical, Radio-Activity, and Solar Power Tectonism & Climate-Role of Climate Exposure and Response |
Ch 3-4 pp 13-54 Ch 3-4 pp 55-95 |
4 | Fluvial Systems-Stream process New Orleans dikes, levees, channels, valleys, and flood plains, Tributaries and Distributaries Drainage Systems. |
Ch 5-6 pp 96-184 |
5&6 | Weathering-Groundwater Karst Topography-Aquifers- Speelunkers-Sink Hole Dangers |
Ch 7 pp 185-214 |
6 | Mass Movement, Wind and Deserts and Glaciation | 8 & 9 |
7 | Review and Exam | |
8 | Tectonism and Vulcanism Land and Deep Sea Faults, Folds and Volcanic Landforms |
Ch 8-9 pp 215-239 |
9 | Igneous Features-Folds and Faults Meogeosyncline-Time and Nature of Rock |
Ch 10-11 pp 240-292 |
10 | Deserts and Eolian Environments Role of heat, wind and rain |
Ch 17 pp 471-493 |
11 | Glacial Processes-Alpine vs. Continental Landforms and Vegetation g |
Ch 12-13 pp293-363 |
12&13 | Glaciology, glacial geomorphology Erosion Deposition and Landform Ice Ages and Landforms |
Ch 14-15 pp 364-427 |
Review-Final |
Text: Easterbrook, Don J. Geomorphology, 2nd ed, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J, 1999
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