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><FONT size="+1" color="#000000"></B>Weekly Lecture Notes<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"> 1.) Regional Descriptions<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Colors &amp; Symbols<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Process - vs landforms<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">2.) Climate Morphogenesis - temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Hill slopes. Fluvial, Karst, Arid, Glacial.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">3.) Tectonic geomorphology<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Plate contact structures<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">4.) Quantitative geomorphology<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Drainage basins<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Catchments areas<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Flood Plains<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Structure Process Time<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Adverbs - How, what when where<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Spatial Dimension &amp; Scale<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Rough geometric shapes = fractals<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Vs.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Geometric shapes classical Euclidean geometry<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Earth rotation - spheroid<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Based on - density<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Time = when = episodic - vs. long term<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Spontaneous - slow<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Geoid vs. ellipsoid &amp; best fit of base level<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Continents &amp; Oceans (land elevation vs. ocean bottom)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">71 vs. 29<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">X depth = +/- 12,000ft. = 2mi<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">10 major plates<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Role of ocean crust &amp; submarine mountains.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Plates - convergent - divergent &amp; transform<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Physiographic provinces<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Land shields, seas, platforms, erogenic belts<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Ocean ridges plains, island arcs, and back arc basins<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">US Provinces - 25-<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Tectonic Orogeny old - young - east - west - jagged - smoothed<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Erosion vs. Deposition - Agrade vs degrade<FONT size="+1"> </P
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