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 Show all
- Coastal-zone 28 matches
- Fluvial 105 matches
- Glacial/Periglacial 52 matches
- Hillslopes 48 matches
- Karst 8 matches
- Mass Movement 31 matches
- Volcanoes 7 matches
Geoscience > Geology > Geomorphology > Landforms/Processes
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Subject: GeomorphologyResults 31 - 40 of 201 matches
Effective discharge in monsoon controlled rivers
Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
When does a river really carry sediment? Do lots of small floods carry as much sediment as a single big flood? Although we talk about average annual erosion rates, is sediment transport in rivers episodic rather ...
Vignette Type: Process, Computation
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
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 ...
Vignette Type: Computation, Process
Fluvial geomorphology in a tank - The scientific value of physical experiments
Nikki Strong, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
The beauty and utility of experiments is to illuminate the fundamental processes that drive the evolution of natural systems. Experiments help us build intuition for processes that otherwise might be hard to ...
Vignette Type: Computation, Process, Chronology, Stratigraphy
Sea Level Rise in the San Francisco Bay – Considering Morphology in Adapting Management
Adam Parris
The San Francisco Bay – A Community Investment The San Francisco Bay (Bay) is part of the largest estuary on the west coast of North America. It supports a densely populated and prosperous surrounding cultural ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process, Stratigraphy
Landscape inversion on Earth and Mars
Devon Burr, Northern Arizona University
PROCESS: Landscape inversion is the process whereby relative topographic elevations become inverted such that previously low-standing features become high-standing. This relief inversion occurs through induration ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Process
Digital Topography: Should you choose a TIN or raster interpolation of the landscape?
Lisa Walsh, University of Maryland-College Park
The recent explosion of Geographic Information System (GIS) tools enable geoscientists to visualize the Earth's surface in three dimensions using digital topography. Digital topography can be represented in ...
Vignette Type: Computation, Process
Geomorphic Evolution of the Upper Basin of the Tigris River, Turkey
Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah
Introduction The Tigris is one of Antiquity's famous rivers, as it flanks the fertile strip of land known as the Mesopotamian Plain, the heartland of the mighty biblical empires of Sumeria and Assyria (Figure ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Process
Use of Large Woody Materials and Large Wood in Streambank Erosion Control
Frank Reckendorf
In recent years, woody material has been used to add a habitat component to the use of woody materials for bank protection. However, the use of large woody materials for bank protection has a long history. Use of ...
Vignette Type: Process
Causes of Streambank Erosion
Frank Reckendorf
Streambank erosion is a natural phenomenon but can become accelerated because of changes at the watershed and/or reach level. Background conditions are established using old photographs and maps and compare rates ...
Vignette Type: Process