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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Geoscience > Geology > Geomorphology > Landscape Evolution
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Reconstructing the geomorphic history of a cave: a case study from Liang Bua, Indonesia
Kira Westaway
Liang Bua, a large cave situated 16 km from Ruteng in western Flores, Indonesia (Figure 1), was formed as a subterranean chamber over 600 ka. From this time to the present, a series of geomorphic events influenced ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process, Stratigraphy
Human Impacts on the Landscape
Roger Hooke
Humans move tremendous amounts of earth every year. They are arguably the premier geomorphic agent sculpting the surface of Earth today. In the early 1990s, people in the United States were moving about 0.8 Gt (Gt ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process, Stratigraphy
Understanding soil erosion and landscape evolution using computer based predictive models
Greg Hancock
The ability to measure and model soil erosion and resultant landscape evolution is important because soil erosion has a range of environmental impacts, including loss of organic matter and nutrients, reduction of ...
Vignette Type: Computation, Process
Salt Karst: Mount Sedom diapir
amos frumkin
A unique, rapidly evolving karst landscape is described below. It develops on salt rock (halite) at such a rate that a human lifetime is enough to observe considerable geomorphic variations. Halite is the most ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process
Rock Glaciers Move Mountains - Perhaps Right Under Your Skis
Twila Moon, University of Washington-Bothell Campus
What is a Rock Glacier?A rock glacier is an geomorphic feature that includes ice and talus. An "active" rock glacier meets two important criteria: 1) it contains ice currently and 2) it is moving and ...
Vignette Type: Process
The Drying of Sierra Nevada Wet Meadows Impacted by Channel Incision and Opportunities for Restoration
Eric Booth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Connection Between Groundwater and Stream Channels: When considering the water cycle of a watershed, stream valleys represent a zone where terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems interact through the exchange of ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process
Geomorphic controls on the slackwater deposition: Example from the Mahi River Basin, western India
Alpa Sridhar
The river basins of western India are characterized by colossal deposits of marine, fluvial and aeolian origin. A major bulk of these sediments has been deposited during the late Pleistocene under climatic and ...
Vignette Type: Chronology, Process, Stratigraphy
The Largest Landslides on Earth
Oliver Korup
In landscape evolution, landslides are thought to play a prime role in controlling hillslope erosional response to tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic forcing (e.g. Korup et al., 2007; Hewitt et al., 2008). ...
Vignette Type: Process
When streams unravel: the tale of Plum Creek, CO
Laurel Larsen, University of California-Berkeley
Streams that have recently undergone disturbance provide a natural laboratory for understanding how fluvial landscapes evolve. Plum Creek, CO, which experienced catastrophic flooding in the 1960s, has provided ...
Vignette Type: Process
Optimality hypotheses for river network development
Kyungrock Paik, Korea University
Earth's surface is full of fascinating patterns and many of them are created by the flow of water. For example, natural stream reaches are composed of regular repetition of riffles and pools. Streams meander ...
Vignette Type: Process