Syllabus

Course Code: M-GEO-205 (core)    Course Name: Morphometric Analysis (Theory)

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. Arrangement, identification and interpretation of topographical sheets of India.
2. Delineation of drainage basin and its geographical significance.
3. Profile: Transverse and longitudinal.
4. Drainage network analysis: Linear and areal properties.
5. Relationship between stream order, number and length.
2 6. Relief aspect of drainage basin:
(i) Area-height curve,
(ii) Altimetric frequency curve,
(iii) Hypsographic curve,
(iv) Hypsometric integral curve
(v) Clinographic curve.
7. Development of slope and various methods of its analysis (Wentworth and Smith’s method).
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