Geomorphology overview

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geomorphology overview

  • try a gallery walk? print out photos and ask them to interpret the features. instructions here
    • do a short survey at end about how effective they thought the gallery walk was and whether they would like to do it again.

mass wasting

river systems

  • go through examples from this website
  • movie of river meanders meandering
features of rivers
  • channel
  • valley
  • floodplain
  • features:
    • meanders
    • point bars
    • oxbow lakes
      • see fig. 18.3
    • braided streams
    • levees
drainage networks
  • divide
  • drainage basin
    • dendritic drainage
    • rectangular drainage
    • trellis drainage
    • radial drainage
  • drainage patterns through time
    • antecedent stream
    • superposed stream
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