Semester: | 5th |
Course Type: | Mandatory |
Course Code: | Y5201 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 3 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 2 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 33 |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 5 |
Teaching Units: | 4 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | - |
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific field of Geomorphology. Through lectures, laboratory exercises and fieldwork activities, the students will get acquainted with the endogenous and exogenous natural processes (terrestrial-marine-atmospheric) that shape and evolve the relief of the Earth.
Earth relief. Endogenous - exogenous processes. Landforms and factors that control them; Modern directions of geomorphology; Geomorphological maps, geomorphological mapping; Research issues in Geomorphology; Structure shapes (sedimentary - horizontal - single - folded - crystalline); Landforms of metamorphic rocks; Volcanoes; Faults, fault lines, cliffs; Weathering, erosion, deposition; Active, inactive landforms; Gravity Movements; Hydrological cycle; Fluvial cycle, hydrographic networks; Geomorphic environments: Fluvial Geomorphology; Geomorphology of slopes; Aeolian Geomorphology; Karstic Geomorphology; Tectonic Geomorphology; Morphometric indicators; Coastal Geomorphology; Glacial Geomorphology; Geomorphological risks and environmental impacts.