ENGE486-06S2 (U) Semester Two 2006 (University Campus)

Engineering Geomorphology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 10 July 2006
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2006
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 23 July 2006
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 8 October 2006

Description

This course covers the principles and processes of landform evolution - tectonic, fluvial, mass movement, coastal, volcanic, glacial erosion and deposition: with application to site selection, field exercises, case studies.

This course introduces students to the general principles governing landform evolution in response to tectonic, mass movement, fluvial, glacial, base level change and other processes, so that the relevant geomorphic history and future of a site can be deduced and constraints on sustainable development inferred.

Course Content
The course content will include:
- An introduction to methods of understanding the form of landscapes as systems; in terms of the combinations of processes that formed them, and the constraints on the operation of these processes;
- Examples of landform analysis; field exercises;
- Inferring the history of a landscape – dating methods;
- Effects of human modification of landscapes;
- Implications for future human use of sites.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students successfully completing this course will:

  • Have a basic understanding of the drivers of and constraints on landform evolution.
  • Be able to analyse the present geomorphology of a site and deduce its geomorphic history.
  • Be able to infer the likely geomorphic future of the site
  • Be able to report on the likely practical implications of future geomorphic activity at the site

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable Note

Lectures/Seminars
Wednesdays 2 – 4 pm Geology Room 210.

Field exercise 12/13 August 2006
This will involve mapping an active geomorphic site in Canterbury, and associated data interpretation and analyses. There is a field trip levy of $35 per student.

Case study review
To be advised.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Tim Davies

Lecturers

David Bell , Jarg Pettinga and Philip Tonkin

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Field mapping and investigation exercise 09 Sep 2006 30%
Case study review report 06 Oct 2006 20%
Final Examination 50%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $580.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Geological Sciences .

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