October 31, 2002 version of syllabus for GLG362/598 Geomorphology. Subject to change!

GLG 362/598 Geomorphology


 
Week
Date
Topic
Reading/Project due dates
1
8/27
8/27
8/29
Introduction to course
Lab 1:Landforms of US
Observing landscapes 
Ritter, et al., Ch. 1. 
USGS Map I-2206
2
9/3
9/3
9/5
Weathering (chemical)
Lab 2:
No Class--SCEC Paleoseismology
Ritter, et al., Ch. 3.
3
9/10
9/10
9/12
Weathering (mechanical) 
Lab 3: 
Soils
 Ritter, et al., Ch. 4. 
 
4
9/17
9/17
9/18
9/19
Climate
Lab 4: Topographic maps and air photographs
Jon Pelletier, UofA at Colloquium
Climate 
 Ritter, et al., Ch. 2.
Pinter and Keller, ex. 3. or 
5
9/24
9/24
9/26
Climate change and tectonic forcing of global climate
Lab 5: Soils
Isostasy and surface uplift
Handouts
Handouts
England and Molnar and handouts 
6
10/1
10/1
10/2
Mass wasting 
Lab 6:  Introduction to topographic mapping and the Total Station
Soil mechanics and Engineering geology of hillslopes
Ritter, et al., Ch. 4.
Handouts
 
7
10/8
10/10
Lab 7: Field Trip to Pima Canyon, South Mountains (lecture and lab)
Exam
Final project topic due
 
8
10/15
10/15
10/17
10/20
Mass wasting 
Lab 8:  
Mass wasting 
Saturday Field trip along the Salt River terraces
Ritter, et al., Ch. 6.
9
10/22
10/22
 
 
10/24
Consulting practice in piedmont processes: guest lecture by Jon Fuller, JEFuller/Hydrology and Geomorphology, Inc.
Lab 9: 
Mass wasting 
 
 

Ritter, et al., Ch. 5.
10
10/29
10/29
10/26
No class--GSA
No class--GSA
Mass wasting 
Handouts
11
11/5
 
11/7
11/9
Lab 11: Field Trip to Chandler Heights earth fissures  (lecture and lab)
Fluvial geomorphology 
Saturday Field trip to Queen Creek
 

Handouts

General outline and sample text (~3 pages) and illustration for final project due (11/7)
12
11/12
11/12
11/14
11/16
Fluvial geomorphology 
Lab 12: Grand Canyon Hydraulics lab
Exam
Saturday Field trip to the Black Canyon City Landslide
 
13
11/19
11/19
 
11/21
Fluvial geomorphology 
Lab 13: Fluvial processes and discharge calculation practice
 
Hillslope processes 
 
 
14
11/26
11/26
11/28
Hillslope processes 
Lab 14:  Finite difference models of hillslope processes 
Thanksgiving; classes excused
Handouts
 
15
12/3
12/3
12/5
Hillslope processes/Quaternary geology and dating
Lab 15:Quaternary geology and dating
Quaternary geology and dating
Handouts
 
16
12/10
12/10
12/17
Drainage basin analysis and landscape development 
Lab 16: Drainage basin analysis and landscape development 
Final presentations and Final project due during Final exam time (4:40-6:30)
Montgomery and Dietrich, 1994 and Ritter, et al., Ch. 5.
GLG 362/598 Geomorphology