- Docente: Davide Baioni
- Credits: 5
- SSD: GEO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Natural Sciences (cod. 5823)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student is able to:
recognize the different morphogenic processes and related forms;
build a geomorphological map.
Course contents
Introduction: general concepts and definitions - morphogenetic processes and forms.
Physical environment and human activity: natural hazard, vulnerability and risk.
Introduction to geomorphological cartography.
Endogenous and exogenous processes and related landforms.
Karstification processes and landforms.
The geological factors in the relief shaping: tectonic related landforms and litho-structural landforms.
Slope geomorphology: runoff and landslide processes and landforms.
River geomorphology: drainage systems and river processes. river morphology and drainage basin landforms.
Coastal geomorphology: coast forms and processes. Characteristics of the different types of coast. Lagoons and river outlet.
Climatic geomorphology: landforms of periglacial, glacial, arid-hot, temperate and hot-humid morpho-climatic systems.
Planetary geomorphology.
Geomorphological heritage.
Readings/Bibliography
CICCACCI S. (2015) – Le forme del rilievo. Mondadori Università, 576 pp.
PANIZZA M. (2014) – Geomorfologia. Pitagora Ed., 386 pp.
Teaching methods
classroom lessons
field activity
Assessment methods
oral examination
Teaching tools
Didactic material such as slides, handouts, exercises
Office hours
See the website of Davide Baioni