Class 25: Hydrology
Class updates: Reading: Section Today’s topics: Water on Earth Water transport Water and geology Class 25: Hydrology
Water where?
Hydrologic (aka water) cycle
Evaporation & transpiration
Condensation
Precipitation
Transport to ocean
Slow Transport
Fast transport: River Drainage Basin
Drainage basin II
River runoff
Erosion & Base Level
River Valley Development
River Erosion (denundation) Challenge question: Why so high in N India? Think of sediment source
Velocity Profile Flow velocity in channel depends on friction: bottom and sides friction due to boulders, gravel, vegetation water flows - middle of the channel - near the surface
River Types - braiding
River Types - meanders
Meanders II
Sediment Transport
Floods I
Floods II
Features: Stream Patterns Regular Guided by cracksGuided by layers Guided by elevationGuided by depressions
Features: Alluvial Fans
Features: River Terraces
Features: River Deltas