Landforms

Geography 1020

Geography 1020 is the study of agents and processes of landform development, and of the origin, nature, and distribution of specific types of landforms on earth, including those formed by tectonic and volcanic activity, running water, moving ice, wind, waves, and ocean currents.
 

Sylabus

• Fall 2003 - (web page or MS-Word doc)

Lecture presentations

• Lecture 1: Intro
• Orders of Magnitude
  
• Lecture 2: Rocks
• Igneous rock composition
• Lecture 3: Plate tectonics
• Links
• USGS: History of plate tectonics
• Plate tectonic reconstructions and animations

• Lecture 4: Tectonic Boundaries
• Lecture 5: Faults, Folds and Joints
• Lecture 6: Earthquakes
• U of Memphis: Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)
• Lecture 7: Volcanoes
• Flood Basalts
• Lecture 8: Weathering
• Frost wedging
• Lecture 9: Soils
• Lecture 10: Mass Wasting
• Lecture 11: Glacial Processes
• Snowlines in the Pacific Northwest (NAST)
• Lecture 12: More Glacial Processes

• Lecture 13: Glacial Landforms (zip)
• Glacier and sea ice Flyover movie
• Retreat of the Laurentide (North American) Ice sheet
• Lecture 14: GROUNDWATER
• Memphis idealized groundwater animation (zip)
• Lecture 15: Karst
• Example of the formation of limestone from Australia
• Limestone caverns in Tennessee
• Chattanooga, Tennessee 
• Briston, Tennessee
• Lecture 16:  Drainage Basins
• Lecture 17: Fluvial Processes
• Lecture 19: Coastal Processes
• Lecture 20: Coastal Landforms
  

• Fall 2003:
• Exam 1: Friday, September 19th, 2003
• Sample questions
• Study Guide
• Exam 2: Friday, October  24th, 2003
• Study Guide
• Exam 3: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003
• Study Guide
• FINAL: Friday, December 5th, 2003 @ 8:00 am.
  

Useful Links

• Images
• Educational Resources
  

National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration

World Meteorlogical Association

The University of Memphis

US global change research program