- Docente: Rossella Capozzi
- Credits: 7
- SSD: GEO/04
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Rossella Capozzi (Modulo 1) Vincenzo Picotti (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Geological Sciences (cod. 8015)
Learning outcomes
To analyze environmental systems and processes producing different Earth surface evolution and landforms at different space and time scales.
Course contents
Introduce physical geography by examinating the geological features of the Earth. Describe rock structure as a landform control. Study the upper layer of the Earth's crust, which provides rock materials that can be shaped into landforms by running water, wind, waves and ice. Types of weathering. Erosion, transport, and deposition. Mass wasting, downslope movement of rock and soil under the influence of gravity. Study surface water and landforms shaped by streams. Drainage system, divide, drainage basin, patterns, and base level. Study of the hydrologic cycle and groudwaters. Describe the factors that combine to create the variety of coastal landscapes. The work of waves and tides. The work of winds and the desert environment. Describe glacial landforms and glaciation cycles. Informational content of maps.
Readings/Bibliography
Press F., Siever R.., Grotzinger J., Jordan T.H. (2010)
CAPIRE LA TERRA (Edizione italiana a cura di E.Lupia Palmieri e M.
Parotto). Zanichelli ed. Bologna
Marchetti M. Geomorfologia Fluviale, Pitagora Editrice
Bologna
A. K. Hamblin, E.H. Christiansen. Earth's Dynamic System,
Prentice-Hall, Inc (ed.).
Teaching methods
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, LCD projector
Office hours
See the website of Rossella Capozzi
See the website of Vincenzo Picotti