GG1001 Physical Geography

*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 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) Lecture 15 - River systems - human and climate impacts Topics covered: terminology, the impact of agriculture and landscape clearance Recommended reading available on Lecture 15 continued & Lecture 16

*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 global volcanic activity', Geology, 41, 227-230 Raymo & Ruddiman (1992) "Tectonic forcing of late cenozoic climate', Nature, 359, 117-122

*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 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 Recommended reading available at Lecture 16 continued & Lecture 17

*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 covered: structure of cliffs, changing rates of coastal erosions Recommended reading available in Lecture 17 continued & Lecture 18

*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.* 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 environment', Chapter 8, 11, 18 Woodward (2009) 'The physical geography of the Mediterranean', Chapter 6

*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 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