week 4: Plate tectonics, mountain building forces. Geomorphic processes – endogenic and exogenic processes and their resultant landforms
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction, , scope and major branches
- week 2: Lithosphere:Internal structure of earth
- week 3: Rocks–origin, formation and types: Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks
- week 4: Plate tectonics, mountain building forces. Geomorphic processes – endogenic and exogenic processes and their resultant landforms
- week 5: Earthquakes and folding and faulting
- week 6: Weathering, mass wasting, cycle of erosion, erosion and deposition ,Landforms produced by running water, ground water, wind and glaciers
- week 7: Atmosphere ,Composition and structure of atmosphere
- week 8,9: Atmospheric temperature and pressure, global circulation ,Atmospheric moisture and precipitation
- week 10: Air masses and front ,Cyclones and other disturbances
- week 11: Hydrosphere ,Hydrological cycle
- week 12,13: Ocean composition, temperature and salinity of ocean water, Movements of the ocean water; waves, currents and tides
- week 14,15: Biosphere, Ecosystem, formation and types of soil
- Chapters 12
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Shagufta Riaz
