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 21 - 30 of 229 matches
Defining rates of erosion using terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides in the Himalaya
Lewis Owen, North Carolina State University
The Himalaya and Tibet comprise the greatest mountain mass on our planet, stretching for ~ 2000 km east-west and >1500 km north-south with an average elevation of ~5000 m above sea level. The mountain mass ...
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
Fire geomorphology: Fire-related erosion helps to shape our landscapes
Kerry Riley
The frequency of large wildfires has increased on all vegetated continents (Bowman et al., 2009). Wildfires can have profound influences on erosion rates, particularly in steep mountain basins. Fire-related ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Process, Chronology
Great Basin Dunes and Winds: What Might They Tell Us About the Geologic Record?
Paul Jewell, University of Utah
Dune fields have long been recognized as important geomorphic features of continents, both on the modern Earth and in the geologic record. While dunes can exhibit a variety of morphologies (McKee, 1979), they ...
Vignette Type: Process
Geomorphic Setting & Archaeology of the Cunene River, Namibia
Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah
Introduction This vignette presents a virtual tour of the Cunene River, and a prehistoric archaeological site located on a fluvial terrace in northern Namibia. Today the Cunene River is an important transnational ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Process, Chronology
Living on a slippery slope: Case studies of geologic hazards from the Wasatch Front, Utah
Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah
Throughout their history, humans have fought the natural elements; we build shelters, roads, hospitals and malls wherever we can engineer "solutions" and strategies that permit us to thrive, even in harsh ...
Vignette Type: Process
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 retreat chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last 10,000 years and implications for deglacial sea-level rise
David Ullman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Much of the world's population is located along the coasts. In a world of changing climate, the rate of sea level rise will determine the ability of these communities to adapt to sea level rise. Perhaps the ...
Vignette Type: Chronology
Land disturbance and recovery following a massive deforestation event in the Missouri Ozarks
Winston Crausaz
In 1983 California businessman Raymond L. Sheeks purchased 40 square kilometers of wooded upland in the Ozark Mountains of south-central Missouri. Starting with steep forested slopes, a relief of 100 meters, thin ...
Vignette Type: Process
The Mexican Alps: A Zone of Glacier Carved Cirques and Valleys
Winston Crausaz
BACKGROUND The Mexican Alps is a zone of spectacular landforms similar to those found in the glaciated regions of the Rocky Mountains. It is located just north of Mexico's highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba, ...
Vignette Type: Stratigraphy, Process