Geomorphology

Paper Code: 
GEO121
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
To make students able to know the formation of landforms, origin and distribution of landmasses along this earth movements.After completion of this unit students will understand the drainage system and river profiles.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.They will understandthe step by step formation of slopes and valleys and the theory given by Davis and Penck.
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: 
2023-2024