Geomorphology
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Bachelor's/Master's degree: Bachelor's degree
Subject: Geomorphology
Field: Natural and Life Sciences
Stream: Ecology and Environment
Semester: 5, Academic Year: 2025/2026
Coefficient: 3
Credits: 4
Teaching unit: Fundamental 2
Total weekly hours: Lecture 1 hour 30 minutes
Language of instruction: English
Lecturer responsible for the subject: ZENTAR AMINA
Grade: MCB Email: zentar.a@centre-univ-mila.dz
Assessment: Knowledge assessment and weighting Final examination 100%
the objectives
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
Understand the formation of landforms
Comprehend the dynamics of the lithosphere
Analyse the factors that influence morphology
prerequisites
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of geology and geography
Possible prerequisite test:
Generally, students must have completed the general ecology MTT modules and a general course on the environment
Section 4
1. General information
- Introduction
- Geomorphology and ecology relationships
- River valleys and interfluves
- Erosion, lithology, structure
2. Structure
- Influence of lithology
- General structure of the globe
- Classification of rocks
3. Tectonic deformations
- Isostatic equilibrium
- Derivation of continents and plate tectonics
- Formation of relief features
- Tectonic accidents
- Tectonic data: syncline, anticline
- Relief features of simple structures: cuestas
- Evolution of Jurassic landforms
- Relief features of complex structures
4. External factors affecting morphology
- Types of erosion
- Erosion processes
- Areolar erosion
- Slope profiles
- Linear erosion: terraces
- Periglacial erosion
- Karst model
- Wind erosion: wind formations
- Hydro-eolian basins: Daia
- Anthropogenic action and morphogenesis
5. Azoonal climatic geomorphology
- Climatic variations: the Quaternary period
- Morphological system of Algeria
* Humid domain
* Arid domain
* Desert or Saharan domain
* Forms common to arid zones
- Evolution of forms in the three domains
6. Ecological preponderance of the geomorphology factor