Geography 313 – Geomorphology
II
Announcements
Apr. 11/03 Sorry for taking
so long! The current marks upto April
11/03 can be downloaded here as a PDF
file. See you all Saturday night!
Mar. 28/03 Readings for
Section 6 are now available for download, check below.
Mar. 26/03 The last lecture
(!), Section 6 – Rates of Denudation, is now available for download below. The readings will be up before the weekend.
Mar. 10/03 Check below for Lab
4 download.
Mar. 7/03 The notes for
section 5 have been uploaded, check the Lecture Notes section below. The supplementary readings are now available
for download in Section 5 below.
Mar. 2/03 Click here to download a Zip archive of all the
field trip stop photos taken by me.
Course Outline & Tentative
Schedule
Course Outline MSWord format
Tentative Schedule MSWord format
Lecture Notes
Section 1 –
Introduction to River Basins MSWord
format
Section 1 –
Introduction to River Basins Adobe
Acrobat PDF format
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Chapter 3 Easterbrook – Freeze/Thaw (pp. 16-18), Thermal
Expansion/Contraction (pp. 19-20), Wetting and Drying (pp. 20-21), Chemical
Weathering (pp. 22-25 to end of Solution), Controls on Rate & Character of
Weathering (pp. 30-40), Soils (pp. 45-50).
Chapter 5 Easterbrook – Antecedent Precipitation (pp. 99-101 to end of
Permeability).
Chapter 2 Ritter et al. on
library Reserve
Section 2 – Channel Mechanics MSWord format
Section 2 – Channel Mechanics Adobe Acrobat PDF format
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Chapter 9 Fluvial Processes (Selby 1991)
and Chapter 6 Fluvial Processes (Ritter et
al. 2002).
Section 3 – Sediment
in Channels MS
Word format
*
-
Equilibrium in Streams to the end of the chapter (pp. 130 – 136)
Selby (1985) Chapter 9 – Fluvial Processes, p245 -
252
Ritter et al. (2002) Chapter 6 – Fluvial Processes, p195 - 207
Knighton (1984) Chapter 3 – Fluvial Processes, p56
- 84
Section
4 – River Valleys and Fluvial Landforms MSWord
format
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Section 5 – Slope
Processes MS
Word format
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Selby Chapter 4 – Strength and Behaviour
of Rock and Soil
Selby Chapter 6 – Mass Wasting of Soils
Selby Chapter 9 – Slope Profiles and Models
of Slope Evolution
Ritter et al. Chapter 4 – Physical Weathering, Mass Movement, and Slopes
Section 6 – Rates of
Denudation MS Word format
*Readings* Chapters
10 – Magnitudes and frequencies of erosional events and 11 – Rates of
denudation and their implications from Selby, M. J., 1982 Hillslope Materials
and Processes are available here.
Labs
Supplementary notes for Lab 1 MSWord format
Supplementary notes for Lab 1 Part II MSWord format
Basin map for Lab 1 JPG
format
Lab
2 – Channel Mechanics MSWord
format
Lab 3 – Sediment in Channels MSWord format
Lab 3 – Topographic Map JPG format
Lab 3 – Air photo JPG
format
Lab 3 – Air photo take 2 JPG format
Supplementary readings – Trenhaile MSWord format
Supplementary
readings – Selby MSWord
format (To end of Fan processes and
deposits)
Lab 4 – Mass Wasting MSWord format
