Week 7  
Work of Water on the Land: Drainage Systems

Fluvial Geomorphology and the Erosion Cycle

Lecture Discussion Topics

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Week 7
Laboratory Activity  on 
FLUVIAL SYSTEMS

Important WWW

HYDROSPHERE and LIMNOLOGY

Key Terms: Hydrology, Limnology, Fluvial Geomorphology

Alluvial  Fertile Crescent Peneplaine
Alluvium fan Floodplain Placer mining
Amazon River Ganges River Point bar
Annular drainage Gradient Radial drainage
Aswan Dam Great Basin Rectangular drainage
Basin and Range Province Guilin China Regolith
Bed load Haystack hills (Pepino hills Puerto Rico) Rejuvenation
Bhramaputra River Headward erosion Rhine River
Braided stream Hoover Dam Riparian water rights
Bureau of Reclamation Huang He (Yellow) River Rock or debris avalanche
Capillary attraction Hundred-year flood Rockfall
Carbonate rocks Hydraulic mining Rockslide
Centripetal drainage Indus River Runoff
Channel Inflow (lakes) Salinization
Chiang Jiang (Yangtze) River Intermittent stream Saltation
Colorado Plateau Isotherms Sediment flow
Colorado River Itaipú Dam Sinkhole
Continental divide Karst topography Slope failure
Debris fall Knickpoint Slump
Delta Lake Bonneville Stream
Dendritic drainage Lake Kivu Stream profile
Denudation Lake Natron Stream terrace
Deranged drainage Lake Tanganyika Submergence
Discharge Landscape cycle Suspended load
Discharge area Landslide Taelweg
Dissolved load Law of prior appropriation Temperate (perennial) river
Divide (drainage) Limnology Three Gorges Dam
Doline Load Tigris-Euphrates River
Double delta (Africa as on the Niger River) Mass wasting Tilapia sp.
Drainage basin Meander Travertine
Dystrophic Mesopotamia Trellis drainage
E. Coli Missouri-Mississippi River System Tributary
Earthflow Mudflow Uplift
East African Rift System Natural levee Velocity
El Sudd swamp (basin) Nile River Water Hyacinth
Emergence Niger River
Ephemeral stream flow Oligotrophic
Erosion Outflow (lakes)
Eutrophication Oxbow lake
Exotic river Parallel drainage

Week 8
Groundwater, Limnology (Limno-Geology),  
Denudation and Arid Lands Landscapes


Lecture Discussion Topics

    Topic #15: Groundwater, Karst and Caves

Laboratory Activity - Week 7-8
LIMNOLOGY, GROUNDWATER, 
KARST AND ARID LANDS


Important WWW Sites

CRYOSPHERE (Ice and Snow)

Key Terms: Alpine and Continental Glaciation

Ablation area Hanging valley Quaternary
Abrasion Horn Regional snowline
Accumulation area Ice caps Rock flour
Active layer (permafrost) Ice sheets Sea ice
Albedo Iceberg Seasonal ice zone
Altitudinal zonation (plants) Kames Snowline
Arrete Kettles Standsbury shoreline
Basal sliding Lateral moraine Striations
Bergschrund Lead (in sea ice) Surge (glacier)
Braided meltwater stream Life zones Temperate glacier
Bull Lake Glaciation Mass balance Terminal moraine
Calving (glacier) Median moraine Terminus
Cirque glacier Monadnocks Till
Cirque Moraine Tundra
Columbia Icefield Outwash plain Valley glacier
Crevasse Perennial ice zone Wisconsin Period
Cryosphere Periglacial landscapes
Drumlins Permafrost
Equilibrium line Pinedale Glaciation
Eskers Pleistocene
Fjord Plucking
Fjord glacier Polar glacier
Frazil ice Polynya
Glacial erratic Pressure ridge
Glacial polish Provo Shoreline

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Week 10
Water World

Ocean Science, Coastal and 
Insular Landscapes

Lecture Discussion Topics

        Topic #22: Oceans and Marine Science

        Textbook: Skinner & Porter, The Blue Planet Chapter 11  pages 241 - 269.  The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science, 2e

        Video: The Blue Planet. NASA Air & Space Museum

        Web Readings:

      Topic #23: Coastal Zone Processes

        Reading: Skinner & Porter, The Blue Planet. Pages 203-218, 300-302.

        Web Readings:

            HYDROSPHERE - Oceans/Oceanography and Marine Science/Ecosystems

      Topic #24: El Niño-Southern Oscillation / ENSO

Laboratory Activity - Week 10 : 
OCEANS and EL NIÑO

      Take-Home Activity: El Nino/La Nina, ENSO and Monsoons

      Lab Activity #2:Ocean Planet (Smithsonian Institution).

          Go HERE for lab sheet

      Lab Activity #3: Coastal/Insular Issues in the Bay of Honduras

      Lab Activity #4: To Feed a Hungry Planet

        GEOSCOPE scenario section entitled: Food from the Oceans and Phytoplankton

          Go HERE for lab sheet

         


Important WWW Sites

    Key Terms: Oceanography and Marine Science

Abyssal plain Fringing reef Pelagic zone
Anchovy Geostrophic current Persian Gulf
Archipelagic states Grand Banks Peru (Humboldt) Current
Atlantic Ocean Guano Polynesia
Atoll Gulf Stream Puerto Rico Trench
Barrier island Gulf of Mexico Pycnocline
Barrier reef Gyre Salinity
Bay Halocline Sea cliff
Beach-dune ridge Headland erosion Sea stack
Benguela Current Heat capacity Sea caves
Benthic zone Hudson Bay Seas (Black, Caribbean, Mediterranean, etc.)
Berm crest Hydrosphere Shore line (littoral)
Bores (waves of translation) Indian Ocean Submergence
Breaker Intertidal zone Submergent coast
Cay Isotherms Sunda Trench
Coastal plain ITCZ Surf
Coastal states Krill Swash
Continental slope Kurioshio (Japan) Current Territorial Sea
Continental shelf Lagoon Thermocline
Contiguous Zone Longshore current Thermohaline circulation
Convergent margin coast Marianas Trench Tidal bulge / bore
Coriolis effect Mean low water Tsunami
Delta Mean high water UNCLOS III
Downwelling Melanesia Upwelling
EEZ Micronesia Wave length
Ekman transport Nearshore Wave period
Ekman spiral Neritic zone Wave height
El Niño/Southern Oscillation North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) Wave base
Emergent coast North Atlantic Drift Wave refraction
ENSO Oceanic states Wave-cut terrace
Equatorial Current Pacific Ocean Wavelength (ocean)
Equatorial Countercurrent Passive margin coast West Wind Drift
Estuary Western Boundary Current
Euphotic zone World Ocean
Evaporite deposits