PRACTICAL: TECHNIQUES OF RELIEF REPRESENTATION IN GEOGRAPHY (Practical)

Paper Code: 
24CGEO502(A)
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will help to enhance student’s basic skills required in Cartography and understanding Toposheets.

Course Outcomes: 
CO48: Depict and analyze representation of relief and correlate to real life.
CO49: Identify and construct various landforms with the help of contours.
CO50: Enhance student’s basic skills required in drawing the profiles.
CO51: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
20.00
Unit I: 
Representation of Relief
  • Spot heights
  • Bench Marks
  • Hachures
  • Hill Shading
20.00
Unit II: 
Contours

Study and depiction of:

  • Hill
  • Waterfall
  • Drainage Pattern
  • Lake
  • Plateau
  • Gorge
  • U - Shaped Valley
  • V - Shaped Valley
  • Hanging Valley
  • Convex Slope
  • Concave Slope
  • Ridge
  • Cliff
20.00
  • Serial
  • Superimposed
  • Projected
  • Composite
Essential Readings: 
  1. Singh, R.L. and Singh, R.P.B. (1999). Elements of Practical Geography, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
  2. Monkhouse, F.J. and Wilkinson, H.R. (1972). Maps and Diagrams, Methuen and Co. Ltd., London.
  3. Mishra, R.P. and Ramesh, A. (1989). Fundamentals of Cartography, Concept Publishing, Delhi.
  4. Singh, G. (2004). Map Work and Practical Geography, Vikas Publication House, Delhi.
  5. Singh, R.L. (1998). Prayogic Bhoogol Rooprekha, Kalyani Publications, New Delhi.
  6. Sharma, J.P. (2010). Prayogic Bhugol, Rastogi Publishers, Delhi.
 
 
SUGGESTED READINGS
  1. Gupta, S.C.: Fundamentals of Statistics,2018, Himalaya Publishing House.
  2. Zamir, Alvi, Statistical Geography: Methods and Applications Rawat Publications.
Academic Year: 
2024-2025