1. Earth Surface Oblate Spheroid = Largest Topo Feature of Earth
Course Notes: 1.2

2. Hypsometry, the Continental Freeboard, and Isostasy
Hypsometric Curve = 2nd Largest Topo Feature of Earth
Course Notes: 1.2

3. Ocean Basin Shape / Seafloor Bathymetry
Ocean Basin Shape = 3rd Largest Topo Feature of Earth
Course Notes: 1.2

4. Crustal Thickening – e.g. Tibet
Course Notes: 1.2

5. Rock/Surface Uplift, Flexural Isostasy, Crustal Loading
Course Notes: 1.2

6. Fault Scale Tectonic Geomorph and Paleoseismology
Course Notes: 1.2

7. Glacial Processes – Mass Balance
Bench Glacier, AK – June 2000
Bench Glacier, AK – September 2000
Course Notes: 1.2

8. Glacial Flow, deposits, and landforms
Course Notes: 1.2

9. Periglacial Processes / Freeze-Thaw
Course Notes: 1.2

10. Convex Hilltops, Hillslope Diffusion
Course Notes: 1.2

11. Regolith Production, Landsliding
Course Notes: 1.2

12. Runoff, Drainage, Catchments
Course Notes: 1.2

13. Turbulent Flow, River Velocity Profiles
Turbulent Laminar
Course Notes: 1.2

14. Fluvial Sediment – Bedload, Suspended Load, Flood Plains
1952
McMurdo Basin,
Columbia River, B.C.
1988
Course Notes: 1.2

15. Fluvial Incision of Bedrock
Course Notes: 1.2

16. Waves and Coasts – Erosional Features
Course Notes: 1.2

17. Waves and Coasts – Depositional Features
Course Notes: 1.2

18. Submarine canyons – Monterey canyon Origin?
Course Notes: 1.2

19. Geomorphic Evolution -Multiple Climate Cycles
River terraces – geomorphic markers
Wind River, Wyoming
Course Notes: 1.2

20. Guiding Principle #1: Conservation of …
Mass
Energy
Momentum
Course Notes: 1.3.1
A&A Chap. 1

21. Guiding Principle #2: Transport Rules
Process Geomorph involves movement of material – ice, water, air, sediment, piles of rocks, etc.
Rates of material motion are influenced by stresses – e.g.’s:
Water flowing downhill: velocity increases with greater slope.
Compost decay rate increases with ambient temperature.
Rate of people entering a football game increases with internal crowd roar.
Course Notes: 1.3.2
A&A Chap. 1

22. Guiding Principle #2: Transport Laws
Time scales of motion / rates for different materials can vary several orders of magnitude within the same environment:
Ice Sheet example – katabatic winds, meltwater streams, glacial flow, mantle flow.
Course Notes: 1.3.2
A&A Chap. 1

23. Guiding Principle #3: Timing and Magnitude of Geomorphic Events
Jokoklaup (glacial outburst flood)
Kennicott River, Alaska
Course Notes: 1.3.3
A&A Chap. 1

24. Guiding Principle #3: Timing and Magnitude of Geomorphic Events
Fire in Geomorphology
Tuttle Creek Fan, Eastern CA
Course Notes: 1.3.3
A&A Chap. 1

25. Guiding Principle #3: Timing and Magnitude of Geomorphic Events
Estimated wind speeds at 192 mph – broke every anemometer in the valley.
Windstorm
December San Joaquin Valley, California
Course Notes: 1.3.3
A&A Chap. 1

26. Guiding Principle #3: Timing and Magnitude of Geomorphic Events
Course Notes: 1.3.3
A&A Chap. 1

27. Whole Earth Shape: The Oblate Spheroid
Phobos: ~27 km across, potato-shaped
Earth: ~13,000 km across, spheroid-shaped
Course Notes: 1.8
A&A Chap. 2

28. Global Hypsometry
Course Notes: 1.9
A&A Chap. 2

29. Continental Freeboard and Isostasy
Course Notes: 1.9
A&A Chap. 2