
102 Syllabus
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IMPORTANT TERMS/CONCEPTS FOR GEOGRAPHY
102 Part II
degradational/ erosional l'forms
aggradational/
depositional l'forms
alluvial
fan
rain
splash
rills,
gulleys
headward
erosion
stream
load: suspended, dissolved, bed
sliding,
tumbling, saltation
channel
scouring
alluvium
graded
stream
alluvial
stream
flood
plain, bluffs, levee, yazoo streams, backwater swamps
oxbow
lake, cutoff meander, scar
cut
bank, point-bar deposits
bar-and-swale
topography
down-valley
sweep
base
level
stream
rejuvenation
entrenched
meanders
stream
terrace
natural
bridge
oceanic
and continental crust, mantle, inner and outer core
lithosphere,
asthenosphere
lithospheric
plates, plate boundaries
orogenesis
plate
divergence, spreading
mid-oceanic
ridge
axial
rift
passive
continental margin
continental
shelf
plate
convergence, collision
plate
subduction
oceanic
trenches
volcanic
chain/arc
tectonic
activity
plate
tectonics
transform
fault, San Andreas
active
continental margin
hot
spots, mantle plume
Alpine
mountain systems
earthquakes
Precambrian
time
Paleozoic,
Mesozoic, Cenozoic Eras
Pleistocene,
Holocene Epochs
continental
drift, Pangaea
plutons:
batholiths, sills, dikes, veins
volcanic:
magma chamber, crater, gas, lava, pyroclastics
composite
volcano (stratovolcano)
shield
volcano
caldera
flood
basalt
cinder
cones
faults:
normal, reverse, transform, overthrust, fault plane, fault scarp
graben,
horst
Basin
and Range
folds:
anticline and syncline
Valley
and Ridge
topographic
inversion
mesa, butte, spire
badlands
fall line
coastal plain
domes
hogback, cuesta
continental collision zones
folded belts, fold trains
regional/ contact metamorphism
streams: consequent, subsequent, antecedent
drainage patterns: trellis, annular, radial, dendritic

For further information, please contact
Professor Kenneth M. Hinkel, Department of Geography, 712 Swift Hall, ML 131
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0131
Phone: (513) 556-3430, Fax: (513) 556-3370, E-mail: ken_hinkel@compuserve.com
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