GEOMORPHOLOGY

Paper Code: 
GEO 121
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course aims to acquit the student with the conceptual framework for understanding the existing geomorphological landscapes and related processes.

 

MAX. MARKS: 100 

Course Outcomes (COs) 

Learning and teaching  strategies

Assessment  

Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will  be able to: 

CO1: students should be able to know the  formation of landforms and all the  geomorphology. 

CO2: this unit will interpret students theory  related to origin and distribution of landmasses  and oceans. Along this earth movements. CO3: after completion of this unit students will  understand the drainage system and river  profiles. 

CO4: students will get to know the formation  of all kinds of landforms which are built of  different agents like glacier, underground water  exists on earth.  

CO5: they will understand the step by step  formation of slopes and valleys also the theory  given by Davis and Penck.

Approach in teaching: Interactive lectures,  discussion, 

Tutorials, reading  assignments, demonstration Learning activities for the  students: 

Self-learning assignments,  effective questions, seminar  presentation.

Class test,  Semester end  examinations,  

Quiz, Solving  problems in  tutorials,  

Assignments,  

Presentation,  

Individual and  group projects

 

15.00
Unit I: 
  • Fundamental in geomorphology. 

• Evolution of geomorphological Thoughts 

• Relationship between process and landform

15.00
Unit II: 

 • Morphogenetic processes 

• Continental drift theory of Wegner 

• Plate tectonic theory 

• Earth movements: epeirogenic, orogenic 

• Folding and Faulting

15.00
Unit III: 

• Drainage system and patterns 

• Morphometry of drainage basin 

• River valleys, graded river and profile

• Channel morphology 

 

 

15.00
Unit IV: 

Geomorphological Processes and their Landforms 

• Karst topography 

• Fluvial 

• Aeolian 

• Glacial 

• Marine 

 
15.00
Unit V: 

• Models of landscape evolution and slope development: Ideas of Davis, Penck, and King.

• Multicyclic and polygenetic evolution of landscapes.

Essential Readings: 

• Chorley. R. J.: Spatial Analysis in Geomorphology, Methuen, London, 1972. 

• Garner, H. F.: The Origin of landscape – A Synthesis Geomorphology, Oxford  University  

• Press, London, 1974. 

• Thornbury, W. D.: Principles of Geomorphology, john Wiley, New York, 1960. 

• Bloom, Arthur L., Geomorphology: A systematic analysis of late Cenozoic landforms  Prentice Hall of Delhi: 2002 

• Singh S.: Geomorphology, Prayag Publication, Allahabad, 1998. 

• Sparks, B. W.: Geomorphology, Longman, London, 1960. 

• Khullar D.R.: Physical Geography, Kalyani Publishers, 2012 

• Strahler, A.M.: Modern Physical Geography. John Wiley and Sons. 1983 

• Gurjar, R.K.: Jat, B.C, Geography of Water Resources, Rawat Publications, Jaipur,  2008 

• Sharma, H. S. (ed.) Perspectives in Geomorphology. Concepts, New Delhi, 1980.

 
Academic Year: 
2022-2023