Syllabus

Course Code: M-GEO-206 (core)    Course Name: Morphometric Analysis (Practical)

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. Representation of physical features
2. Representation of cultural features
3. Delineation of watershed (All exercises shall be based on it)
4. Profile analysis: transverse and longitudinal
a) Serial profiles
b) Superimposed profiles
c) Composite profiles
d) Projected profiles
e) Longitudinal or valley Thalweg profile
5. Linear Aspects:
a) Relationship between stream order and stream Number
b) Relationship between stream order and average stream length
c) Bifurcation ration
6. Areal Aspects:
a) Drainage frequency
b) Drainage Density
2 Relief Aspect:
a) Area height Curve
b) Altimetric frequency curve
c) Hypsographic curve
d) Hypsometric integral curve
e) Clinographic curve
7. Slope Analysis:
a) Wentworth’s method of average slope
b) G. H. Smith’s method of relative relief
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