Geology 350: Geomorphology

Credits 4
Credit Type
Semester Offered
Spring
Faculty
Persico

Description, origin, development, and classification of landforms. Relationships of soils, surficial materials, and landforms to rocks, structures, climate, processes, and time. Maps and aerial photographs of landscapes produced in tectonic, volcanic, fluvial, glacial, periglacial, coastal, karst, and eolian environments. Exercises on photo-geology. Lectures, discussions, laboratories, and field trips. Open to Geology majors; others only by consent of instructor.

Prerequisites

Geology 110, 120, or 125.

Corequisites

Includes a required corequisite lab, Geology 350L.