{"id":11,"date":"2012-09-05T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:32:12","slug":"gly4700","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/courses\/gly4700\/","title":{"rendered":"GLY 4700 &#8211; Geomorphology"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GLY 4700 &#8211; Geomorphology<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Taught online during Fall semesters of odd years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description and Goals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This course focuses on the origin\/evolution of landforms and the physical processes responsible for their creation and modification.\u00a0 Each topic will relate to the following recurring themes that we use as guiding principles for the course: laws of conservation, transport rules, and event magnitude\/frequency.\u00a0 The course is structured to begin with the \u201cbig picture\u201d view of geomorphology (whole-earth shape and the large-scale details of the continents and ocean basins), then move on to the tectonic construction of landscapes, thermally-driven processes including glacial\/periglacial systems, transport of material through fluvial and hillslope systems, sediment entrainment and deposition, and landscapes at the coastal\/marine interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Objectives:\u00a0 <\/strong>It is the goal of this course that, by the end, students will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>understand the relationship between numerous Earth\u2019s surface landforms and the processes responsible for creating and shaping them.<\/li>\n<li>develop \u201cback of the envelope\u201d calculation skills to estimate geomorphic rates, landform size \/ shape, and timing, by employing the laws of conservation (mass, momentum, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>gain an appreciation for the frequency-magnitude distributions of geomorphic events throughout Earth history and how those distributions influence the landscape we see.<\/li>\n<li>be able to predict where on Earth particular geomorphic processes should be operating.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}