Welcome to the online supplement for the Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology.
The weblinks included in this chapter were chosen to help you with the following learning objectives:
- Be able to use topographic maps and stereograms
to describe and interpret streams: their
valley shapes, channel configurations, drainage
patterns, and the erosional landscapes and
depositional features they create.
- Understand erosional and mass wastage
processes that occur at Niagara Falls, and be
able to evaluate rates at which the falls is retreating
upstream.
- Explore and infer meander evolution on the
Rio Grande.
- Be able to construct a flood magnitude/frequency
graph, map flooded and flood hazard zones, and
assess the extent of flood hazards along the Flint
River, Georgia.
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Be able to determine the flood hazard level
where you live and what to do if you are caught
in a flood (using online resources of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency).
