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<p align="center">Weekly Lecture Notes<br />
  Short Form<br />
  1-1<br />
  1.) Regional Descriptions<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Colors  &amp; Symbols<br />
  Process vs. landforms</p>
<p>2.) Climate Morphogenesis - temperature, precipitation,  winds, humidity<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hill slopes,  Fluvial, Karst, Arid, Glacial.<br />
  3.) Tectonic geomorphology<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plate contact  structures<br />
  4.) Quantitative geomorphology<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drainage  basins<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Catchments areas<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Flood  Plains</p>
<p>Structure Process and Time <br />
  Adverbs - How, what when where</p>
<p>Spatial Dimension &amp; Scale<br />
  Rough geometric shapes = fractals<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vs.<br />
  Geometric shapes-classical Euclidean geometry</p>
<p>Earth rotation &ndash; spheroid vs. ellipsoid<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Based on -  density</p>
<p>Time = when = episodic &ndash; vs. long term<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; spontaneous-slow<br />
  Geoid vs. ellipsoid &amp; best fit of base level<br />
  Continents &amp; 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 &amp; submarine mountains. <br />
  Plates - convergent - divergent &amp; transform<br />
  Physiographic provinces</p>
<p>Land shields, seas, platforms, organic belts<br />
  Ocean ridges plains, island arcs, and back arc basins<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; US Provinces  - 25-<br />
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tectonic Orogeny  old - young &ndash; east &ndash; west - jagged - smoothed</p>
<p>Erosion vs. Deposition - Agrade vs. degrade</p>
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