Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do‚ to understand landform history and dynamics and to predict changes through a combination of field observations‚ physical experiments and numerical modeling. Geomorphology is practiced within physical geography‚ geology‚ geodesy‚ engineering geology‚ archaeology and geotechnical engineering‚ this broad base of interest contributes to many research
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River geomorphology Divided by five East Asia’s mightiest rivers were once a single‚ even mightier torrent Oct 12th 2013 | CHENGDU | From the print edition The amazing First Bend BY BUILDING dams in the Himalayas‚ Chinese engineers are tinkering with one of the world’s great sets of watersheds. Five great streams—the Red River‚ the Yangzi‚ the Irrawaddy‚ the Salween and the Mekong—flow within about 180 kilometres (110 miles) of one another from the south-eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau
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1953; Schumm‚ 1963; Schumm and Khan‚ 1972; Schumm et al.‚ 1972; Rosgen‚ 1994). Numerous researchers have studied different aspects related to stream channels at various levels and scales. Most works are considered as the extension of fluvial geomorphology‚ which deals with catchment scale analysis of stream characteristics to local‚ site specific analysis (Robertson-Rintoul and Richards‚ 1993; Ebisemiju‚ 1994; Winterbottom‚ 2000; Rinaldi‚ 2003; Uribelarrea‚ 2003; Rachana et al.‚ 2004; Aswathy et
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have to be driven by climatic change. Keywords Alluvial fan Á Terrace Á Luminescence dating Á Peru Á Paleoclimate Introduction and motivation The response of geomorphic systems to climate change has been a challenging research field in fluvial geomorphology. D. Steffen (&) Á F. Schlunegger Á F. Preusser ¨ Institute of Geological Sciences‚ Universitat Bern‚ Bern‚ Switzerland e-mail: steffen@geo.unibe.ch Records of change are preserved in stratigraphic archives‚ and successful reconstructions of
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Levardis Smith Katherine Luce LR10 – Intro to Library Research 16 November 2010 Coastal Erosion: Causes and Solutions More than half the world’s population lives in coastal regions‚ and many people visit the coast frequently. Most come for seaside recreation‚ but some also wonder about the origins of coastal scenery. From the United States to Australia to the UK and back‚ our coastlines are disappearing and we have been trying to stop it. Up and down the United States coastline‚ residents
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looking at river landforms it is important to understand the more general role of rivers and to develop an awareness of the processes at work within rivers. It is through this knowledge that we will better undertand the processes at work in the geomorphology of the drainage basin. The role of rivers can be understood in very simple terms. The river’s role is to balance its load and transport it to the ocean. But this this idea of rivers as merely transporting weathered material to the ocean is too
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CGE526 – PETROLEUM GEOLOGY Geology Geology is basically the science which is related to the study of the origin of the Earth including the history and its life‚ the materials that made it up‚ the structure of the materials and the processes acted upon them. It also deals with the study of the organisms that have inhabited the planet and the structure of a specific region of the Earth involving the rocks‚ soils‚ mountains‚ fossils and other features. The word geology was first known used in
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SST PROJECT TOPIC: LANDSLIDE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our teacher ‚MRS. Rajashri Behera‚ who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic –LANDSLIDE. It also helped in doing a lot of research and we came to know about various types of new things. We would also like to thank our parents who helped us a lot in this project. There should also be a special thanks to our group members who cooperated in all the activities
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Geomorphology - is the science of landforms‚ their origin‚ evolution‚ form‚ and spatial distribution. Denudation - is any process that wears away or rearranges landforms. Processes include weathering‚ mass movement‚ erosion‚ transportation‚ and deposition. Differential Weathering - the effect of different resistance in rock‚ coupled with variations in the intensity of physical and chemical weathering. Dynamic Equilibrium Model - the balancing act between tectonic uplift and reduction rates
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(Christopherson) Chapter 10 Weathering‚ Karst Landscapes‚ and Mass Movement 1) The science that specifically studies the origin‚ evolution‚ form‚ and spatial distribution of landforms is A) geology. B) geography. C) geomorphology. D) environmental chemistry. Answer: C 2) All processes that cause the wearing away or rearrangement of landforms are included in the term A) mass movement. B) mass wasting. C) weathering
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