Geography 2330A/B Chapter Notes -Geomorphology, Weathering, Permafrost

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2330A/B
• Professor: Peter Ashmore

Document Summary

All famous landscape were formed by water, streams, rivers and channels. At present it is hard to predict how landscapes will respond to climate change. All earths process are interconnected and coupled to each other, the atmosphere and earth"s interior. Processes are earth"s surface are coupled to those of earth"s interior in various ways that extend to millennial and longer time scales. Height and shape of mountains influence regional weather patterns, which affect rates of erosion via the amount and type of precipitation. Rivers eat away at landscape, and thus uplift. Volume of rock drawn into a mountain belt is affect by earth surface processes, the composition of the rock also is altered and this change can affect climate. Chemical weathering of fresh rock in a rapidly uplifting mountain affect the chemistry of water draining the mountains and can draw carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.