Tentative Study Guide for the Final (Pt 2) Exam)

Global wind circulation pattern,

Different types of deserts, examples

Deflation, Desert Pavement, Ventifact

Different types of dunes, Loess

Valley and Continental Glaciers

Formation of glacial ice, what is snow line

Accumulation, different types of ablation

Glacial budget, movement of equilibrium line and glacial budget

Oxygen 18/16 ratio and climate

Milankovitch Cycle –all the different components

Questions on Plate Tectonics,

Simple isotopic problem

Effect of Dam on sedimentation and erosion

Meandering stream , cut bank, point bar

Alluvial Fan, Natural Levee

Discharge

Probability of flood, recurrence interval, lag time, flood hydrograph

Wavelength, wavebase, V=L/T

Parts of coast – onshore, offshore etc

Wave refraction, erosion of headlands, sea stacks, wave cut terrace

Longshore current and drift.

Ocean margin – shelf, slope, rise, abyssal plains – characteristic sediments and water depths

Atoll

MORB

Elastic Rebound Theory

Focus, epicenter,

Characteristics of P and S wave

Richter scale – relative ground motion and richter magnitude

Earthquake, forecasting and prediction

Precursor events

P and S wave shadow zones – what do these indicate

MOHO

400 and 650 km discontinuities

Internal structure of the earth