Geomorfology
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Giovanna PAPPALARDOExpected Learning Outcomes
Course Structure
Traditional frontal teaching and practical test outside to carry out the geomechanical survey, with the support of multimedia material (slides projected during the lessons) and handouts. The teacher will explain to the students the procedures for calculating some topics of the program. Mandatory attendance.
If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Risultati della traduzione
Detailed Course Content
Geomorphology and landscape
Erodibility of soils and rocks
Morphological cartography, reading of topographic maps and morphological processing through Google Earth, DTM
Factors and processes that control the forms
Forms controlled by lithology and disposition
Morphotectonics and morphoselection
Washout processes: splash actions and runoff actions.
Slope and evolution models.
Processes and forms on the slopes: Soil, regolith and rock. Soliflux, soil creep, soil slip. Parts of a landslide. Varnes classification.
Fluvial processes and forms: the hydrological cycle at the scale of the slope and basin. Hydrographic networks. Alluvial plain. Riverbeds and typologies. Geometry of riverbeds. Hierarchization of hydrographic networks. Hypsographic curve. Flow and velocity. Fluvial solid transport. Fluvial erosion forms. Fluvial sedimentation forms.
Textbook Information
- CASTIGLIONI G.B.- Geomorfologia. UTET, Torino.
- PANIZZA M.- Geomorfologia. Pitagora Ed., Bologna.
- MARCHETTI M. - Geomorfologia Fluviale. Pitagora Ed., Bologna
- BARTOLINI C. - i fattori geologici delle forme di rilievo
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | Geomorphology and landscapeErodibility of soils and rocksMorphological cartography, reading of topographic maps and morphological processing through Google Earth, DTMFactors and processes that control the formsForms controlled by lithology and dispositionMorphotectonics and morphoselectionWashout processes: splash actions and runoff actions.Slope and evolution models. | lecturer slideBooks: 4, 1,2 |
2 | Processes and forms on the slopes: Soil, regolith and rock. Soliflux, soil creep, soil slip. Parts of a landslide. Varnes classification. | lecturer slideBooks: 1,2 |
3 | Fluvial processes and forms: the hydrological cycle at the scale of the slope and basin. Hydrographic networks. Alluvial plain. Riverbeds and typologies. Geometry of riverbeds. Hierarchization of hydrographic networks. Hypsographic curve. Flow and velocity. Fluvial solid transport. Fluvial erosion forms. Fluvial sedimentation forms. | lecturer slideBooks: 1, 3 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The final exam consists of an oral test and verification of learning of the topics covered in the practical tests performed during the course.
Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, depending on health conditions and linked to Covid-19, in compliance with current University provisions.