- Docente: Stefano Cremonini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Natural Sciences (cod. 8016)
Learning outcomes
The students will learn to understand the geomorphic processes and natural forms and to make a preliminary geomorphological map.
Course contents
26 (20 front+6 Exer)complete micromodules (2 hours each) concerning:
1) fields of study and concepts; 2) vertical mobility in the crustal environment; 3) weathering processes; 4-5) pedology; (Exer 1) technical cartography; 6) hydrology; 7)hydrographic network and basin and river-bed parameters; (Exer 2) Quantitative parameters; Processes and Forms (PF) concerning the following environments: 8) slope; 9) fluvial; 10) lacustrine;11) littoral; 12) eolian; 13) glacial; 14) periglacial; 15) karstic; 16) volcanic; 17) submarine; 18) structural geomorphology; 19) anthropogeomorphology; 20) geomorphological mapping rudiments; (Exer.3-4) personal map analysis; (Exer.5) Rudiments of photographic palimpsest interpretation; (Exer. 6) Introduction to the stereoscopic use of the aerial photo-pair.
Readings/Bibliography
In addition to the personal notes and to class hand-outs (within the limits set by the copyright laws) at least one of the subsequent handbooks (according to the language of preference) is advisable.
The suggested literature is consistent with the specific learning work. The high titles amount is due both to the discipline scientific updating and to the personal free choice of the student; but above all it wants to be a sure professional base after the student degree. The lecture attendance is warmly suggested. The handbooks 17 (or 20: English version) are suggested to the students who can not attend the lectures.
Italian textbooks:
1) Castiglioni G.B., Geomorfologia, UTET, 1999
2) Panizza M. Geomorfologia, Pitagora 1995
3)Ciccacci S. Le forme del rilievo: atlante illustrato di geomorfologia, Mondatori 2010.
4) Bartolini C. , I fattori geologici delle forme del rilievo, Pitagora 1992.
5) Dramis F., Bisci C., Cartografia geomorfologica, Pitagora 1998
6) D’Orefice M., Graciotti R., Rilevamento geomorfologico e cartografia. Realizzazione,
lettura, interpretazione. Flaccovio 2015
7) Ciabatti M., Elementi di Idrologia, Patron 1977
8)Sauro U. et al., Dalla carta topografica al paesaggio. ZetaBeta 2005.
9) Marinelli O., Atlante dei tipi geografici, IGM.I. (ristampa 2002).
10) Pranzini E., La forma delle coste. Zanichelli 2004.
11) Carraro F., Geologia del Quaternario, Flaccovio, 2012
12) Dainelli N., Fotointerpretazione: l'osservazione della Terra. Flaccovio, 2011
13) Rivard L., Integration of satellite and photo Geomorphology for preliminary Terrain Evaluation: visual interpretation techniques. Springer , Berlin , 2011.
14) Soldati M., Marchetti M. (a cura di ), Landscapes and landforms of Italy. Springer 2017.
15) Goudie A.S., Viles H.A. (Eds.), Geomorphology in the Anthropocene. Cambridge 2016.
16) Gray M., Geodiversity. Valuing and conserving abiotic nature. Wiley, 2004.
Foreign textbooks:
17) Summerfield M., Global Geomorphology, Longmann 1991.
18) Coque R., Géomorphologie, Colin Editeur, 2000.
19) Campy M., Macaire J.-J., Geologie de la surface, Dunod 2003.
20) Gutierrez E. M., Geomorfologia, Pearson-Prentice Hall, Madrid 2008 (edizione spagnola).
21) Dewolf Y., Bourrié G. , Les formations superficielles, Ellipses, Paris 2008.
22) Anderson R.S., Anderson S.P., Geomorphology : the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010, 654 pp.
23) Jay Melosh H., 2011, Planetary surface processes, Cambridge University Press
24) Smith M. J., Paron P., Griffith J. S, 2011, Geomorphological mapping, Elsevier, Oxford
25) Fort M., Betard F., Arnaud-Fassetta G., 2015. Geomorphologie dynamique et
environnement, A. Colin Ed.
If the case, also:
26) Casati P., Pace F., Scienze della Terra , vol 2° Città Studi 1996 (solo argomenti trattati a lezione); (only topics dealt with in class)
27) Perego S., Appunti di Cartografia ad uso degli studenti di Scienze geologiche e Naturali ecc., Santa Croce , Parma 1997 (Only for students coming from courses other than Natural Sciences)
Teaching methods
Oral lessons and exercises in class. The teacher will drive the students (as a whole class as well as individuals) through each step of the course towards the correct reading and interpretation of the geomorphological setting and related stratigraphic details.
Assessment methods
The final examination will be an oral test but it focuses on a practical approach. Indeed, each student is asked to discuss a previously drawn geomorphological interpretation of a topographical sheet already chosen during the course (a list of maps is suggested by the teacher during the first lesson of the course). The map drawing is performed by the student partly during the class-exercises and partly as final, personal refinement. This analytical discussion will allow for a deepening of all the topics characterizing the course and consequently for determining the final mark.The final mark will be stated considering a value of 70% of the total for the map and its discussion, and a value of 30% for further general theoretical questions.
Teaching tools
Light-board,slide projector ,rocks and soils samples, cartography, aerial photo-pairs, PPT presentations.
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Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Cremonini