- Docente: Paolo Forti
- Credits: 8
- SSD: GEO/04
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Jo Hilaire Agnes De Waele (Modulo 2) Paolo Forti (Modulo 1)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Geological Sciences (cod. 0437)
Learning outcomes
The course will supply students knowledges and tools to recognise a) active geomorphological processes, b) geoforms and geosculptur of the past and to detect the possible paleoprocesses which allowed their evolution
Course contents
geomorphology within the geological sciences, azonal and pluri-zonal geomorphology: slope evolution, fluvial geomorphology, intorduction to quantitative geomorphology littoral geomorphology, anthoropic geomorphology. Climatic geomorphology:morphoclimatic systems: glacial, periglacial, temperate, hot humid and hot dry.
1 credit: feild discussion on karst geomorphology
Readings/Bibliography
panizza m.. geomorfologia. pitagora editrice. 3a edizione, 2002,
bologna
summerfield. fundamentals of geomorphology, longman
castiglioni b. geomorfologia. utet
rice r.j. fundamentals of geomorphology longman ed., 1977,
london
Teaching methods
essons with the aid of overhead and lcd projectors
and drawings on the blackboard
Assessment methods
discussion of the written report of the excursion, discussion
on a morphoclimatic environment chosen by the
student, questions on the program of the lessons and on the
excursion
Teaching tools
Lcd projector, overhead projector
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Forti
See the website of Jo Hilaire Agnes De Waele