Academic year2016/17
CourseNATURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Code142DD
Credits6
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| GEOMORFOLOGIA | GEO/04 | LEZIONI | 48 | |
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Knowledge
The student who successfully completes the course will be able to recognize the different landforms and interpretate them in terms of morphological agents. He/she will get an advanced knowledge of the main morphological processes responsible for landscape shaping and will be able to detect their state of activity.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
The student will must show his/her capability to interpretate a photograph representing a relevant landscapeMethods:
Further information:
The student will be asked to comment on a photograph representing a relevant landscape
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- Laboratory work
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
Syllabus
Morphological agents; landforms, deposits and processes; Forme, depositi e processi; structural landforms; weathering; the cryosphere: glacial and periglacial landforms; glacial chronology; fluvial landforms and alluvial plains; the drainage network; coastal landforms of rocky and sedimentary coasts; landslades and other gravitational landforms;landforms of the karst environment; remote sensing applied to landforms detection; geomorphological mapping.
Bibliography
Mario Panizza - Geomorfologia. Pitagora, 2007 - ISBN: 8837116578
Atlante dei Tipi Geografici dell'Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano (http://www.igmi.org/pubblicazioni/atlante_tipi_geografici/)
Updated: 14/11/2016 17:27
