GG1001: Physical Geography I: Atmosphere, Oceans and the Geosphere

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 9 - Tectonics and weathering - climate and hazards Topics covered: accelerated uplift affect on GHGs, types of volcanic eruptions, impact of glacial ice growth during an ice age, hazards (explosive events)

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 8 - Breaking down the landscape - Weathering processes Topics covered: types of soil Recommended Reading included (some available to download in this module) Lecture 9 - Tectonics and weathering - climate and hazards Topics covered:...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 8 - Breaking down the landscape - weathering processes Topics Covered: types of rocks, weathering processes, lithification Recommended Reading available on Lecture 8 continued & Lecture 9

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Brief case study on the Great Man-Made River Project, Libya Included recommended reading.

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorphology - processes and landscapes Topics covered: key issues in drylands, impacts of dust in the environment Recommended reading included (some available to download in this module) Lecture 19 - Water in the de...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorphology - processes and landscapes Topics covered: distribution of drylands, desert soils, dryland processes, dryland fluvial processes Recommended reading available in Lecture 18 continued & Lecture 19.

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 17 - Coastal Systems - the impacts of humans and climate Topics Covered: pollution of the coastal zone, low pressure zones Recommended Reading included (some available for download in this module) Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorpholog...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 17 - Coastal systems - the impacts of humans and climate Topics covered: cliff collapse, human affect on coasts, human influence on sediment supply, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM)

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 16 - Tides and waves - an introduction to coastal systems Topics covered: beach morphology, deltas Recommended reading included (some available to download) Lecture 17 - Coastal systems - the impacts of humans and climate Topics cov...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 15 - River systems - Human and climate impacts Recommended reading (some available to download in this module) Lecture 16 - Tides and waves - an introduction to coastal systems Topics covered: sediment supply, wave dominated coasts ...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 15 - River systems - Human climate impacts Topics covered: the younger fill, onset of agriculture, river regulation, slackwater deposits, climate vs human activity Recommended reading available on Lecture 15 continued & Lecture 16

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 14 - River System - hydrological systems and their operations Topics covered: magnitude and frequency, morphological river types, river activity calculations Recommended reading included (some available for download on this module) ...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 13 - The Cryosphere in a changing world - the role of the cryosphere in global change Topics covered: periglacial environments Recommended reading included (some available to download from this module) Lecture 14 - River systems - h...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 13 - The Cryosphere in a changing world - the role of the cryosphere in global change Topics covered: Greenland Ice sheet, Antarctica, predictions, sensitivity of ice masses, study of past ice-streams, mega-floods Recommended reading...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 12 - The cryosphere - glacial systems and processes Topics covered: sediment transportation in glaciers, glacial landforms, reconstruction of past glacial limits Recommended reading included (some available to download in this module...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 11 - Unstable landscape - slope processes and dynamics Topics covered: courses/catalysts of soil erosion, predictions for the Mediterranean Recommended Reading included (some available to download in this module) Lecture 12 - The Cr...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 11 - Unstable landscape - slope processes and dynamics Topics covered: main causes, basic principles of slope stability, factors affecting shear strength, factors affecting shear stress, hortonian (overland) flow Recommended reading ...

Lecture 10 - Geosphere - key concepts in surface processes Topics covered: principles of mass flow processes, magnitude/frequency events Recommended reading included (some available to download from this module) Lecture 11 - Unstable landscape - slope processes and dynamics Topics covered: mass flo...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary notes from: Cane, M.A. (2005) 'The evolution of El Nino, past and future', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 230, 227-240 McMichael et al, (2006) 'Climate change and human health: present and future risks', Lancet, 367, 859-...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries from the texts: Elsner (2008) 'The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones', Nature, 455, 92-95 Emmanuel (2005) 'Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years', Nature, 436, 686-688 Ho...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary from texts: Holden (2008) 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment', pgs. 123-128 Donnelly, (2007) 'Intense hurricane activity over the past 5000 years controlled by El Nino and the West African Monsoon', Nature, 4...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries from the texts: Broecker (1998) 'The end of the present interglacial: how and when?', Quaternary Science Reviews, 17, 689-694 Crutzen, Stoemer (2000) 'The Anthropocene', IGBP Newsletter, 41, 17-18 Smith (2003) 'Environmental...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of text: Wilson, Brury, Chapman (200) 'The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life', New Zealand Geographer, 56, 63-64

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of texts: Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, (2013) 'Climate change: evidence and causes' Holden (2005) ' An Introduction to physical geography and the environment', Quaternary Environmental Change, Chapter 20

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of text: IPCC 4th Assessment Report

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of texts: Holden, (2005) 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment', Chapter 5 IPCC 4th Assessment Report

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of texts: Denton & Broecker, (2008) 'Wobbly Ocean Conveyer Circulation during the Holocene?', Quaternary Reviews, 27 Fraedrich, (2001) 'Climate shifts during the last century', Climate Change, 50, 407-417

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of text: Holden (2005) 'An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment', Chapters 2 and 6

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries of texts: Gupta, Collier, Parmer-Felgate, Potter, (2007) 'Catastrophic flooding origin of shelf valley systems in the English Channel', Nature, 448, 342-345 Holden (2012) 'An introduction to physical geography and the environm...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries of texts: Holden (2012) 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment', Glacial geological processes and glacial sediments', pp. 487-499 'Magnitude - frequency concepts in physical geography', pp. 22 Knight & Ha...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries of texts: Watt, Pyle, Mather (2013) 'The volcanic response to deglaciation evidence from glaciated arcs and a reassessment of glacial eruption records', Earth-Science Review, 122, 77-102 Holden, (2012) 'An Introduction to phys...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries of texts: Huybers & Langmuir (2009) 'Feedback between deglaciation, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286, 3-4, pg. 479-491 Kutterolf et al (2013) 'A detection of Milankovich frequencies in ...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries of texts: Smith, (2012) 'Weathering', Chapter 7 in Holden, 'An Introduction to physical geography and the Environment', Goudie et al, (2012) 'Weathering and the global carbon cycle: geomorphological perspectives', Earth-sci...

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary notes on texts: Bridgeland, (2000) 'River terrace systems in northwest Europe', Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 1293-1303 Maddy, (1997) 'Uplift-driven valley incision and river terrace formation in Southern England', Journal of ...