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Surface Processes, Landforms, and Soils

GPHY 208
200-Level Courses
3 Units
In-person
6

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Course Description

Explores the structure of, and physical processes responsible for the development of landforms and soils. Understanding these systems is directly relevant to environmental planning, hazard and risk assessment, geology, and surface processes on other planets. Topics include weathering, volcanic, tectonic, mass wasting, glacial, and fluvial processes.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $25.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Recognize and explain the relevance of geomorphology and pedology as it applies the environment, earth sciences, climate and planning.
  2. Explain and categorize the geomorphological agents/forces and processes that shape the earth鈥檚 surface. Emphasis will be placed on weathering, pedogenic (soil forming), tectonic, volcanic, mass wasting, glacial, and fluvial processes.
  3. Recognize landforms, soil orders, and sediment structures and explain the processes and forces that created them.
  4. Apply the use of air photos, maps, and remote sensing imagery (e.g., Google Earth), to identify earth surface features and infer their processes of formation.