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.

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The degradation of glacial deposits in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Dan Morgan, Vanderbilt University
Surface deposits such as glacial moraines and tills can yield significant information about the timing, extent, and rate of environmental change on Earth. In order to correctly interpret the record of past ...

Subject: Geomorphology: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Arid Region Geomorphology, Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial
Vignette Type: Computation, Process

Soil-water-rock interactions I: The pediment problem
Mark Strudley
You may have not initially appreciated that piedmonts (landscapes between steep mountain masses and depositional basins) are not all covered by alluvial fans. In fact, piedmonts, along with adjoining low-relief ...

Subject: Geomorphology: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Modeling/Physical Experiments, Weathering/Soils, Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Arid Region Geomorphology
Vignette Type: Computation, Process

Erodibility, tensile strength, and the "k" problem in Grand kanyon
Natalie Bursztyn, University of Montana
River profile shape is an important indicator of the geomorphic processes and history that contributed to its modern form. In the case of bedrock streams during episodes of incision, resistance of river-level ...

Subject: Geomorphology: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Dating and Rates, Landscape Evolution, Modeling/Physical Experiments, Arid Region Geomorphology, Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Computation, Process, Chronology

Slow erosion without creep in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Dan Morgan, Vanderbilt University
Quantifying erosion rates is central to understanding how landscapes evolve through time and for discerning the links between landforms and the processes that shape them. The alpine valleys of the McMurdo Dry ...

Subject: Geomorphology: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Landscape Evolution, Arid Region Geomorphology, Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement
Vignette Type: Computation, Process

Soil-water-rock interactions II: The formation of tors in arid and semiarid environments
Mark Strudley
The prominence of bedrock edifices above essentially featureless, erosional pediment surfaces underscores the crux of the 'pediment problem' that has baffled geologists since 1877(described in the Part I ...