Week 2: Weathering and Erosion
•Process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by external conditions.
•Types of Physical weathering
–Frost heaving and Frost wedging
–Plant roots
–Friction and impact
–Burrowing of animals
–Temperature changes
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Course Material
- Week 1: Geomorphological processes
- Week 2: Weathering and Erosion
- Week 3 :Glaciers and their erosional and depositional landforms
- Week 4 :Geological work of wind and associated features
- Week 5 :Erosional and depositional work of surface water
- Week 6 : Valley and base-level development and its types
- Week 7 : Development of flood plains
- Week 8 :The erosional and depositional work of sea
- Week 9-10 :Geomorphic cycles and associated landforms produced by tectonics/volcanic activity
- Week 11 :Introduction to topographic maps
- Week 12-13 :Aerial photographs and satellite imageries
- Week 14 :Erosional and depositional work of subsurface water
- Chapters 12
- Department Earth Sciences
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Dr. Syed Haroon Ali
