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Fluvial Landscape Evolution

Lisa Davis
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University of Alabama

Summary

Students are asked to identify fluvial processes and landforms on topographic maps and interpret them to identify processes of landscape evolution.

Context

Audience

300-level course for geography, geology, and environmental science majors.

Skills and concepts that students must have mastered

Fluvial landforms, fluvial processes, topographic map reading and interpretation.

How the activity is situated in the course

stand-alone exercise

Goals

Content/concepts goals for this activity

Identify long-term processes of landscape evolution.

Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity

synthesis of data
formulation of hypotheses

Other skills goals for this activity

topographic map reading and interpretation

Description of the activity/assignment

This activity requires students to examine a map of the eastern U.S., identify major drainage basins; consult topographic maps of the Blue Ridge, central Appalachians, and identify fluvial landforms and processes of the Blue Ridge, and interpret their role in landscape evolution.
Designed for a geomorphology course

Determining whether students have met the goals

Successful completion of the activity.

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