- Docente: Vincenzo Picotti
- Credits: 4
- SSD: GEO/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Environmental and Territorial Sciences (cod. 0542)
Learning outcomes
Comprehension of the main processes and feedbacks acting at various temporal and spatial scales on the mountain ranges.
Course contents
Introduction: A process geomorphology and its elements:
processes and forms as a system, its balancing as interaction of
forces and resistance. Equilibrium and time scale, and length of
observations. Dynamic equilibrium of Hack and the contributions of
Gilbert and Davis. The concept of threshold.
Hillslope and channel processes, with exercises on topo
maps. Transport vs weathering limited hillslopes. Covex and concave
zones and their mapping. From hillslope to channel (Horton law).
Definition and mapping of basic hydromorphic elements: hyerarchy of
the catchment's tree. Cells and elements. Alluvial processes:
genesis and main elements of alluvial terraces. Conectivity and
relationships between hillslopes and channels: colluvium and
screes. Landslides and debris flow: definitions and
processes.
Digital cartography Lab: three dataset in ArcMap: aster,
vectors and grid, and mutual interchange. Georeferencing of digital
maps. Using nummeric data to construct long profiles and geomorphic
elements (f.i. terraces).
Field excursions (at least three days)
Readings/Bibliography
“Process Geomorphology, third edition”, by Ritter D.F., Craig Kochel R. and Miller J.R., Wm. C. Brown,1995
Assessment methods
oral examination
Teaching tools
Class teaching, Lab and Field excursion
Office hours
See the website of Vincenzo Picotti