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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <p align="center">Weekly Lecture Notes<br /> Short Form<br /> 1-1<br /> 1.) Regional Descriptions<br /> Colors & Symbols<br /> Process vs. landforms</p> <p>2.) Climate Morphogenesis - temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity<br /> Hill slopes, Fluvial, Karst, Arid, Glacial.<br /> 3.) Tectonic geomorphology<br /> Plate contact structures<br /> 4.) Quantitative geomorphology<br /> Drainage basins<br /> Catchments areas<br /> Flood Plains</p> <p>Structure Process and Time <br /> Adverbs - How, what when where</p> <p>Spatial Dimension & Scale<br /> Rough geometric shapes = fractals<br /> Vs.<br /> Geometric shapes-classical Euclidean geometry</p> <p>Earth rotation – spheroid vs. ellipsoid<br /> Based on - density</p> <p>Time = when = episodic – vs. long term<br /> spontaneous-slow<br /> Geoid vs. ellipsoid & best fit of base level<br /> Continents & Oceans (land elevation vs. ocean bottom)<br /> Eustacy vs. Isostacy<br /> 71 vs. 29%<br /> Mean depth = <u>+/- </u>12000ft. = 2mi</p> <p>10 major plates<br /> Role of ocean crust & submarine mountains. <br /> Plates - convergent - divergent & transform<br /> Physiographic provinces</p> <p>Land shields, seas, platforms, organic belts<br /> Ocean ridges plains, island arcs, and back arc basins<br /> US Provinces - 25-<br /> Tectonic Orogeny old - young – east – west - jagged - smoothed</p> <p>Erosion vs. Deposition - Agrade vs. degrade</p> </body> </html>
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