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Geomorphology @ UNI - Dr. Heinzel , No class Monday Oct. 4, 2021

The Bus Fall 2021, Version 4 

Lecture slides (These slides are subject to change, if I show something in class, it is not present here, just let me know and I will get it to you ;-)

Earth's Dynamic Surface

A Geomorphologist's Tool Kit

Climate change and Geomorphology , back up slide deck with more text

Weathering

Soil development

Watersheds and Fluvial Dynamics

Student Fluvial Q/A

Mass Wasting

Glaciers#1

Glaciers#2

The remaining slide decks will be shared via email

Eolian

The eastcentral Iowa Drift Plain

Tectonic Geomorphology

Coastal Geomorphology

 

Dry Run Creek Geomorphology

2016 UNI Geomorphology Dry Run Creek Assessment

A day in the life of Dry Run Creek, Cedar Falls, Iowa

 

Reading

Week 1 - Finney, S.C. The Anthropocene epoch: Scientific decision or political statement? GSA Today, v. 26, no. 3-4, p. 4-10

Hooke, R.L., 2000, On the history of humans as geomorphic agents: Geologic Society of America, Geology, v.28, no.9, p. 843-846.

Week 2 None-

Week 3 - Fitch, E.P., and Meyer, G.A., 2016, Temporal and spatial climatic controls on Holocene fire-related erosion and sedimentation, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: Quaternary Research, v.85, p.75-86

Week 4 - Handout - Birkeland, P.W., 1999, Soils and Geomorphology, New York, Oxford University press – Chapter 11, Application of Soils to Geomorphological, Sedimentological, and Environmental Studies

Week 6/7 - Schumm paper 1, Schumm paper 2, then Rosgen paper 1

Week 9 - Handout - Walters, J.C., 1994, Ice-wedge casts and relict polygonal patterned ground in Northeast Iowa: Permaforst and Periglacial Processes, v.5, p.269-282.

Week 10 - Alley, R.B., et al., Ice-sheet and Sea-level Changes: Science, v.310, p. 356-360

Week 11 - Mason, J.A., 2015, Up in the refrigerator – Geomorphic response to periglacial environments in the Upper Mississippi River Basin USA: J. of Geomorphology, v.248, p.363-381

Week 16 - Heinzel, C.E., and Kolb, M.J., 2011, Late Holocene Land use on the Island of Sicily: A geoarchaeological perspective, in Human Interactions with the Geosphere: The Geoarchaeological perspective, Wilson, L. (ed.): Geological Society of London, London, England, Special Publication #352, p. 97-107.

Video/lecture assistance

Rock Cycle/Energy/Bowen's and Goldich Reaction series

 

Others

Mass Wasting

Rivers

Dry Run Creek, Cedar Falls Iowa