Welcome to the Geomorphology (Geology 300) class web page for Spring 2015. Please check this Syllabus weekly for announcements, readings, assignments and links specific to weekly topics covered in class, labs and fieldtrips. The Preparation Questions page will lead you to thought questions, readings and short exercises that should be completed before each class. See About the Course for evaluation, logistics and expectations.
Although cold and snow has been a bit disruptive in our lives (at least in NE – Ohio) this past month what would it be like with out snow – read this.
Our first lab will be concerned with the data and impact of the December 2013 flood. See images below courtesy of Nick Wiesenberg.
Some images below from the course in the Fall of 2012
Trip to Holmesville Sand and Gravel where we toured the operation and the guts of a Kame Moraine.
Just to the west on the trip is Browns Lake Bog – a kettle in the midst of the Lake District of Ohio
More Coring – this time along the shore of Browns Lake and guess what the upper few meters yielded.
Tell me about the recent (Anthropocene) history from Ohio with this core….
Coring at Bonnett Pond
The coring crew
