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GEOG 213 Google Earth Placemarks
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Instructor: Jeremy G. Venditti Office: RCB 6236Email: jeremy_venditti@sfu.ca Office hour: Mon 11:30-12:20 (on Zoom only) Teaching Assistant: Tingan Li TA Office: None in COVID timesEmail: Tingan_Li@sfu.ca Office hours: Wed 10:30-12:30 (on Zoom only) Lectures: Labs: Required Textbook
Bierman, P.R. and D.R. Montgomery (2014) Key Concepts in Geomorphology, second edition MacMillan Learning Please use the 2014 edition of the textbook if you can find one used! Required Scholarly Articles: You must be on campus to access these Nature articles. Otherwise you must login to the journal Nature from the SFU library Electronic Journals portal.Lecture, Laboratory Topics and Reading Assignments Week 1: What is this course about? · Logistics, organization, and topics · Review of basic geological concepts Readings: Chapter 1 & 2 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) and review geological concepts from GEOG 111 and/or EASC 101 textbooks. Readings: Chapter 1 & 2 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) and review geological concepts from GEOG 111 and/or EASC 101 textbooks. Outtakes from the Fall 2020 welcome video that never got finshed. (Are you a geomorphology instructor somewhere who wants all my powerpoint slides? Send me an email and I'll send you a link with my .pptx slides, labs, syllabus, and even my exams if I can verify you are not a student! I'm happy to see you use them all or just a few slides in your lectures. Sharing is caring.) Week 2: What is the fundamental basis of geomorphology? · Historical conceptions of the landscape · Mass conservation and geomorphic transport laws Readings: Chapter 1 & 2 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) OR: Chapter 1 & 2 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) History & Fundamental Principles Slides. Review of mass continuity principles. Lab 1: Introduction to Google Earth. The Work of Rivers (1935) Movie Week 3: What controls topographic relief? · Coupling of climate and topography · Structurally-controlled and igneous landforms Readings: Chapter 12, 15 & 16 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) OR: Chapter 11, 12 & 14 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) Tectonic & Structural Geomorphology Slides Lab 2: Structurally-controlled and volcanic landforms Week 4: Where do landscape materials come? · Weathering, soil production, and bedrock erosion Readings: Chapter 5 & 6 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) OR: Chapter 3 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) No lab exercise Weathering, Bedrock Erosion and Soil Production Slides Weeks 5 & 6: How do landscape materials get down from mountain tops to valley floors? · Hillslope morphology and transport (slips, slides, flows, and falls) Readings: Chapter 7 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) OR: Chapter 5 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) Lab 3: Landforms of mass wasting. Lab 4: Slope stability analysis. Week 7: Midterm Exam Weeks 8 & 9: How do landscape materials get from valley floors to their ultimate sink (oceans or lakes) · River valley morphology and fluvial transport (Longitudinal valley profiles, channel sediment transport, sediment yield) Readings: Chapters 4, 8 & 9 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) OR: Chapters 4, 6 & 7 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) Suggested further readings: Church, 2005, Bed Material Transport and the Morphology of Alluvial River Channels, Annual Reviews of Earth & Planetary Science 34: 325–354 Lab 5: Sediment mobility in rivers. Weeks 10, & 11: How do glaciers modulate landscape development? · Glacial processes and landforms · Differentiation between landscapes formed by rivers and glaciers · Glacial history & paraglacial landscapes of British Columbia Readings: Chapter 13 in Bierman and Montgomery (Second edition) OR: Chapter 9 in Bierman and Montgomery (First edition) Suggested further readings: Clague, 1989, Quaternary geology of the Canadian Cordillera. In: Fulton, R.J. (Ed.), Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland. Geology of Canada, No. 1. Geological Survey of Canada, pp. 15–96. Glacial Processes & Landforms Slides Lab 6: Geomorphology of glaciated terrain. Week 12: Has the emergence of life on this planet affected the large scale topographic organization of the earth? |
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