Syllabus
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Course Code: GT-401 Course Name: Geomorphology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction: development, scope, geomorphic concepts. Landforms: role of lithology, endogenous and exogenous forces responsible, climatic and tectonic factors. Denudational processes: weathering and its types, erosion, transportation, weathering products and soils profiles, types, duricrusts, desert varnish, mass wasting processes and its classification. | |
| 2 | Fluvial Geomorphology: stream and river processes. Drainage basin: drainage pattern, network characteristics, processes of transport, channel geometry, erosional and depositional features. Desert Geomorphology: deserts and global wind patterns, erosion, transportation and depositional processes of wind. |
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| 3 | Glacial Geomorphology: formation of glacier ice from snow, morphological and thermal classification of glaciers, glacial landforms. Coastal geomorphology: ocean waves, currents and swash, longshore and rip currents, littoral drift, marine erosional and depositional landforms. |
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| 4 | Tectonic Geomorphology: geomorphic indicators of tectonic activity and use of geomorphic elements such as drainage patterns, fluvial terraces, paleosols and alluvial fans in neo-tectonic interpretation. Applied Geomorphology: applications in various fields of earth sciences viz. mineral prospecting, geohydrology, civil engineering and environmental studies; geomorphology and GIS. Geomorphology of India: geomorphic features and zones |
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