GG1001 Physical Geography

*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, 447, 465-468

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 flow processes, slope processes Recommended reading available at Lecture 11 continued & Lecture 12

*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 available at Lecture 12 continued & Lecture 12

*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 Cryosphere - glacial systems and processes Topics covered: terminology, glacial formation, accumulation zone Recommended reading available at Lecture 12 continued