Module Identifier GG30420  
Module Title RIVER SYSTEMS AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE  
Academic Year 2003/2004  
Co-ordinator Professor Mark G Macklin  
Semester Semester 2  
Pre-Requisite GG22510  
Course delivery Lecture   20 Hours 10 x 2 hours  
  Seminars / Tutorials   2 Hours 5 x 2 hours  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 Hours Written examination.50%
Semester Assessment Essay: 2500 word assessed essay.30%
Semester Assessment Presentation: 10 minute seminar presentation.10%
Semester Assessment Course Work: 500 word seminar report.10%
Supplementary Assessment Resubmission of failed CA component. Resit failed examination. 

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to :-


Aims

This module is designed for students to develop a conceptual, factual and practical knowledge of channel, floodplain and catchment response to environmental change over the last 20,000 years resulting from natural and anthropogenic perturbations.

Content

Drainage basin & river response to the last glacial-interglacial transition (18,000-10,000 BP):
Pleistocene context & inheritance in catchment dynamics

River Environments & Holocene environmental change (10,000-300 BP)

River environments & recent environmental change (300 BP to present)

Reading Lists

Articles
** Recommended Text
Macklin, M. G. & Lewin, J. (1997) 'Channel, floodplain and drainage basin response to environmental change'. Pages 14-45 in: Applied Fluvial Geomorphology for River Engineering and Management, Edited by C.R. Thorne, R.D. Hey & M.D.Newson Chichester & John Wiley & Sons

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6