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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!-- Created from PDF via Acrobat SaveAsXML --> <!-- Mapping table version: 28-February-2003 --> <HTML> <HEAD> <META name="dc.title" content="Weekly Lecture Notes" > <META name="dc.date" content="2009-08-12T14:56:56-04:00" > <META name="dc.date.modified" content="2009-08-12T14:57:01-04:00" > <META name="generator" content="Adobe Acrobat Exchange-Pro 7.256" > </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor=white text=black link=blue vlink=purple alink=fushia > <DIV class="Sect" ><DIV ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1" color="#000000"></B>Weekly Lecture Notes<FONT size="+1"> </P ></DIV ><DIV ><P align="left" ><FONT size="+1"> 1.) Regional Descriptions<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Colors & Symbols<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Process - vs landforms<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">2.) Climate Morphogenesis - temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Hill slopes. Fluvial, Karst, Arid, Glacial.<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">3.) Tectonic geomorphology<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Plate contact structures<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">4.) Quantitative geomorphology<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Drainage basins<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Catchments areas<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Flood Plains<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Structure Process Time<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Adverbs - How, what when where<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Spatial Dimension & Scale<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Rough geometric shapes = fractals<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Vs.<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Geometric shapes classical Euclidean geometry<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Earth rotation - spheroid<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Based on - density<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Time = when = episodic - vs. long term<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Spontaneous - slow<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Geoid vs. ellipsoid & best fit of base level<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Continents & Oceans (land elevation vs. ocean bottom)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">71 vs. 29<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">X depth = +/- 12,000ft. = 2mi<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">10 major plates<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Role of ocean crust & submarine mountains.<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Plates - convergent - divergent & transform<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Physiographic provinces<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Land shields, seas, platforms, erogenic belts<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Ocean ridges plains, island arcs, and back arc basins<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">US Provinces - 25-<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Tectonic Orogeny old - young - east - west - jagged - smoothed<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Erosion vs. Deposition - Agrade vs degrade<FONT size="+1"> </P ></DIV ></DIV ></BODY> </HTML>
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