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Geomorphology II

Code: 101062 ECTS Credits: 6
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Geology OB 2

Contact

Name:
Joan Estalrich Lopez
Email:
juan.estalrich@uab.cat

Teachers

Joan Estalrich Lopez

Teaching groups languages

You can view this information at the end of this document.


Prerequisites

Geomorfologia I


Objectives and Contextualisation

Quantification of processes generating forms viewed in Geomorfologia I


Competences

  • Learn and apply the knowledge acquired, and use it to solve problems.
  • Obtain information from texts written in other languages.
  • Recognise geomorphological systems, interpret relief forms and evaluate the evolution of the landscape.
  • Suitably transmit information, verbally, graphically and in writing, using modern information and communication technologies.
  • Use geographical information systems applied to geology.
  • Work in teams, developing the social skills needed for this.
  • Work independently.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply GIS techniques to geomorphology.
  2. Discern the principal relief forms.
  3. Interpret relief dynamics on different time and space scales.
  4. Learn and apply the knowledge acquired, and use it to solve problems.
  5. Obtain information from texts written in other languages.
  6. Suitably transmit information, verbally, graphically and in writing, using modern information and communication technologies.
  7. Work in teams, developing the social skills needed for this.
  8. Work independently.

Content

- Slope processes

- River processes

- Karstic processes

- Eolian processes

 


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Field work 7.5 0.3 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Practicum 19 0.76 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7
Theory 24 0.96 2, 3, 5
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 4 0.16 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Type: Autonomous      
Personal work 89.5 3.58 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7

Lectures and field work

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Filed work 5% of final degree 2 0.08 2, 3, 8, 7
Pop-quiz 35% final grade 2 0.08 4, 2, 5, 6
2 Mid-term exams each 30% of final degree 2 0.08 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7

Final exam only for students with a fail grade


Bibliography

Same as in catalan version


Software

Excel


Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PCAM) Field practices 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PCAM) Field practices 2 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 2 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 3 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed