GEOL 333 -
Principles of Geomorphology
Spring
Semester 2012
Dr. Matthew S. Lachniet
UNLV Department of Geosciences
2012 Syllabus
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Topic List:
- Process
Geomorphology (Chapter 1)
- Internal
Forces and Climate (Chapter 2), includes faulting and tectonic
geomorphology
- Chemical
Weathering and Soils (Chapter 3)
- Physical
Weathering and Mass Wasting (Chapter 4)
- Wind
processes and landforms (Chapter 8) and Arid Land Geomorphology
(Handouts)
- Drainage Basins
(Chapter 5)
- Fluvial processes
(Chapter 6)
- Fluvial landforms
(Chapter 7)
- Glaciers and Glacial
Mechanics (Chapter 9)
- Glacial erosion,
deposition, and landforms (Chapter 10)
- Karst processes and
landforms (Chapter 12)
- Coastal processes and
landforms (Chapter 13)
- Periglacial processes
and landforms (Chapter 11; Time permitting).
Final Exam for Spring, 2012 is Tuesday
May 8, 6:00-8:00 PM (Cumulative)
FIELD TRIPS
(Schedule may change due to permits, etc.)
1)
Valley of
Fire/Lake Mead (all day Friday, Feb. 10, 2012)
2)
Geomorphology (GEOL 333) is a 4-credit course with laboratory, and an
introduction to the common landforms on the Earth's surface. The course is
relevant to many disciplines including geology, biology and ecology,
engineering, water resources, agronomy, anthropology, archeology, and many
others. Landforms are the interface between humans and the Earth – everywhere
you are or will be is a landform – and understanding the processes and myriad
forms of the Earth's surface provide a sense of place. This course is offered
every Spring Semester at UNLV.
This
courses satisfied the UNLV science requirement.
Pre-requisites: Geology 101 with lab, or equivalent. (Previous
mineralogy and optical mineralogy courses are no longer pre-requisites)
Book information.
Text: Ritter et al., 2011, Process Geomorphology, 5th
Edition. Waveland Press, 652 pages. $79.95. Waveland Press, ISBN:
1-57766-669-0; http://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=420&r=a|552
Lab
manual: Interpretation of
Landforms from Topographic Maps and Air photographs, by Easterbrook and
Kovanen. $31.95. Waveland Press Inc., ISBN: 1-57766-481-7; http://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=577&r=a|752
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