GEOG 473 — APPLIED GEOMORPHOLOGY I
BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
The course discusses conceptual principles underlying the processes of geomorphic landforms and their resultant structure on the earth surface. Emphasis will be placed on the typical tropical areas as a morphogenetic region as well as the global zones of morphological processes and forms as modified by the respective climatic environment. The outline includes geomorphic theories underlying the weathering processes and products, deep weathering profiles, Duricrusts, denudational processes, inselbergs, hillslopes and pediments, stream channels, orogenetic processes and bioclimatic interruptions, quantitative and geomorphologic mapping, glaciology and sedimentologic study of surface particles. The examination and determination of soils and their characteristics in the field, (horizons, texture, colour, consistency, reaction with organic matter) will also be discussed.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- CS 451 — INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF SOIL SCIENCE
- GEOG 451 — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT I
- GEOG 452 — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT II
- GEOG 453 — SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES I
- GEOG 454 — SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES II
- GEOG 455 — POVERTY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
- GEOG 456 — RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES
- GEOG 457 — INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 458 — INDUSTRIALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- GEOG 459 — MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 460 — HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- GEOG 461 — POPULATION GEOGRAPHY
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