Course Description & Objectives:
- Definition and scope of geomorphology,
- Overview of environmental geomorphology.
- Development of Geomorphologic ideas/schools of thought (Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism, Mobilistic, Eustatic, etc).
- Major/Key Concepts and approaches in Geomorphology and how they relate to environmental management.
- Endogenic processes and landforms (Earth’s structure, Global tectonics and landforms, Plate tectonism, Sea floor spreading, Continental drift, Igneous activities and associated landforms, Extrusive igneous activities and Intrusive igneous activities).
- Exogenic processes and landforms (Weathering and associated landforms, Slope evolution processes and landforms, peneplanation, pedi-planation, etc). Fluvial processes and landforms.
- The drainage basin as a system.
- Processes and landforms associated with Coastal environments.
- Applied geomorphology and its relevance to environmental management (a look at specific case studies).
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