Vignettes are stand-alone, illustrated electronic case studies that teach about geomorphology, surface processes, and/or Quaternary history. Vignettes can be used alone or in combination with the "Key Concepts in Geomorphology", the first in a new generation of textbooks. Vignettes allow faculty to customize the learning resources they offer students to enrich and personalize student learning experiences.
Subject: Geomorphology
- 1 match General/Other
- Arid Region Geomorphology 42 matches
- Climate/Paleoclimate 57 matches
- Dating and Rates 64 matches
- Geomorphology as applied to other disciplines 37 matches
- GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques 40 matches
- Landforms/Processes 201 matches
- Landscape Evolution 102 matches
- Modeling/Physical Experiments 30 matches
- Tectonic Geomorphology 27 matches
- Weathering/Soils 34 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 229 matches
Glacial Features of Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
R. Laurence Davis, University of New Haven
INTRODUCTION Franconia Notch, New Hampshire (Figure 1) is a classic northern Appalachian glaciated valley. It has geomorphic features from pre-glacial times, from the glaciation itself, from glacial meltwater, and ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process
The Kern River, California: A Story of Uplift, Incision, and Flood Control
Natalie Bursztyn, The University of Montana-Missoula
Within Kern County, the present day Kern River is an example of two distinct river environments. In the Sierra Nevada, the Kern River is in a classic V-shaped canyon (Fig. 1) as it erodes towards base level. In ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Stratigraphy
Application of remote sensing in geomorphology
MATTHEW BLACKETT
Remote sensing is the observation of surfaces or objects while not being in direct contact with them. By this definition, cameras are remote sensors, observing the environment around us but not requiring us to ...
The shaping of England's Peak District National Park
MATTHEW BLACKETT
The Peak District is a National Park in central England (Figure 1), characterized by a unique geology and geomorphology which are the product of processes extending back to the Late Tertiary period, approximately ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy
Automatic extraction of flow paths from digital elevation models
Kyungrock Paik, Korea University
Once a raindrop falls on the ground, it flows downward. During this journey, the raindrop joins other raindrops and the mass/volume of the water increases, flowing along creeks, streams, and rivers. This is called ...
Vignette Type: Computation
Development of Palimpsest Landscapes
Jasper Knight
In Physical Geography, a palimpsest landscape is one where, in any given region, the different landforms that make up the landscape are not of the same age, with some surface landforms being very young because they ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Chronology, Process
Lightning as a Geomorphic Agent in Low-Latitude Mountains
Jasper Knight
It is often assumed that high mountain environments are dominated by the geomorphic imprints of cold-climate weathering and erosion processes, forming angular bedrock fragments that are commonly found across ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Process
Cracking up: emerging evidence for the importance of the sun in the mechanical weathering of rocks
Martha Eppes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Introduction Physical weathering, through the breakdown of rock into sediment, plays a fundamental role in the rock cycle and potentially a key role in landscape evolution. In addition, the physical breakdown of ...
Vignette Type: Process
Quaternary glaciation of the Himalaya and Tibet
Lewis Owen, North Carolina State University
The mountains of the Himalaya and Tibet are the most glaciated regions outside of the polar realm. The countries within and bordering the Himalaya and Tibet depend greatly on the glacial and associated hydrological ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Stratigraphy
A new deglacial chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Wisconsin
David Ullman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
During the past 2.5 million years, the earth has seen a series of major ice sheets built through the slow accumulation of snow, followed by warming and rapid ice collapse. This fluctuation in global ice sheets is ...
Vignette Type: Chronology