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Semester 1
Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers (GEGR10094)
Subject Area
Geography
Credits
20
Course level
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)
Course description
Hills and mountains are continuously being denuded and dissected by erosional processes. In non-glaciated landscapes sediment is produced on hillslopes, delivered to channels, and eventually transported to basins. In this course, students will be introduced to the processes that sculpt these upland regions. The processes and their feedbacks will be analysed at different scales, from particles to mountain ranges and from single transport events (e.g. landslide, flood) to geological time scales. Theoretical, experimental (analogical and numerical) and field studies constitute the basis of this course. Lectures, practicals, numerical modelling exercises and field work will allow students to understand and quantify hillslope and fluvial processes and to gain knowledge on the interactions between these processes and on their relative importance in driving landscape evolution.
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Course delivered by
College of Science and Engineering
School of Geosciences
This article was published on Feb 24, 2012