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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
Semester II - Paper-III - Geomorphology
Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4
Semester II
PAPER III - GEOMORPHOLOGY
Unit I
Rocks : types and classification -. Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, folding, faulting, earth quake and volcanoes
Unit II
Forces of gradation and weathering - mechanical and chemical weathering, mass wasting and mass movement
Unit III
Agents of Gradation-- Fluvial processes, erosion, transportation, deposition, resultant topography, glacio fluvial action - erosion and depositional work at the glacies - resultant topography
Unit IV
Eolian landscape - erosion - depositional work of the wind - resultant topography, wave action - erosive work of the waves, depositional work of the waves - shorelines of submergence and emergence.
Unit V
Underground water - water table - spring and their types, karst topography, normal cycle of erosion - Davis, Penk.
Reference
1. Workeester, 1965, Text book of GeomorphologyBusiness Schools - Engineering Colleges - Medical & Nursing Admissions - BEd in Distance mode - Journalism & Media Studies - Forensic Science
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