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25 Cards in this Set
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Geomorphology 1 |
The study of Earth forms. |
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Geomorphology 2 |
Includes ocean topography. |
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Geomorphology 3 |
Focus on surface forms and processes. |
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Geomorphology 4 |
Transcendant throughout a broad range of space and time. |
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Geomorphology 5 |
Study extends towards other Earth-like planets. |
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Basic concepts 1A |
The same physical processes and laws that operate in today have operated thoughout geologic time. Although not necessarily with the same intensity as now. |
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Basic concepts 1B |
The present is the key to the past.. Law of uniformitarianism (James Hutton) is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. |
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Basic concepts 2A |
Geologic structure is a dominant controlling factor in the evolution of landforms and is reflected in them. |
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Basic concepts 2B |
"Structure" as used in geomorphology includes all those ways in which the Earth materials out of which landforms are carved differ from one another in their physical and chemical attributes. |
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Basic concepts 3A |
Geomophic processes leave their distinctive imprint on landforms, and each geomorpholical process develops its own distinct assemeblage of forms. |
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Basic concepts 3B |
Landforms are not haphazerdly developed with respect to another but certain landforms may be expected to be associated with eachother. |
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Basic concepts 3C |
Equiformality: similar forms result from different processes. i.e. Martian gullies. |
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Basic concepts 4A |
To a large degree the Earth's surface processes relief because the geomorphic proceses operate at different rates.
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Basic concepts 4B |
Some landscapes arise from desorderly processes. i.e. Scablands in Eastern Washington. |
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Basic concepts 4C |
Cycle of erosion.. was a model for stream erosion and landscape development proposed by William Morris Davis in the late 19th century. |
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Basic concepts 5A |
Complexity in a geomorphilogic system is nore common than than simplicity. |
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Basic concepts 5B |
It is necessary to search for simplicity in geomorphical systems than complexity. |
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Basic concepts 6A |
Little of the Earth's topography is is older than the Tertiary and most of it is no older than the Pleistocene. |
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Basic concepts 6B |
Relict landscape elements remain despite Pleistocecne changes. In some cases vast relict landscapes persist. i.e Australia and Africa. |
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Basic concepts 7A |
An appreciation for world climate is necessary for a proper undestanding of the varying importance of different geomorphic processes. |
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Basic concepts 7B |
Landscapes reflect the influence of certain climatic processes by developing a characteristic assemblage of landforms. i.e. Climatic Geomorphology. |
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Basic concepts 7C |
Geologic structure prodominates over climate influnecing landform assemblages. |
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Basic concepts 8A |
Geomorphology, although concerned with modern day landscapes, attains it maximum usefulness by historical extension. |
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Basic concepts 8B |
Historical extension may properly be refred to as paleomorphology. |
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Basic concepts 8C |
We have returned to the pricipal of uniformitarianism. |