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Geomorphology @ UNI - Dr. Heinzel

The Bus Fall 2024, V2

Final exam = will be during our final class, Friday Dec. 13 from 10 to 11AM

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 ;-)

1. Earth's Dynamic Surface

2. A Geomorphologist's Tool Kit

3. Intro. to Streams and Rivers e.g. Dry Run Creek

4. Fluvial Geomorphology, Watersheds and Fluvial Dynamics , Student Fluvial Q/A Background reading Schumm paper 1, Schumm paper 2, then Rosgen paper 1

5. Weathering

6. Soil development , Digital Presentation to finish soils

I will be off campus and unavailable for a couple of weeks starting Oct. 2. Continue with learning content on this webpage AND work hard to collect the new Dry Run Creek Data. I should be able to anwer emails starting Oct. 8th or so... We will make up labs after I get back for Mass wasting and Glaciers.

6. Finishing soils Lecture via Panopto Presentation #1

7. Mass Wasting , Digital Presentation #2 - Lab: Collect DRC data 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

8. Glaciers#1, Glaciers#2 ,, Alley, R.B., et al., Ice-sheet and Sea-level Changes: Science, v.310, p. 356-360

9. Eolian processes and the Iowan Surface - 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

10. Tectonic Geomorphology

11. Volcanic Geomorphology

Take home 'test 3' due before you leave for Fall Break. Covers Unit 10 and 11.

On deck...

12. Climate change, Landscape Evolution and Geomorphology , back up slide deck with more text , paper to read for discussion (day paper is to be read, will be mentioned in class) Fitch and Meyer Climate Controls on Holocene Fires, Jemez Mountains

 

Dry Run Creek Geomorphology

2016 UNI Geomorphology Dry Run Creek Assessment

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

If time is available -

Week X - 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