Key Concepts in Geomorphology – ideas for revision
Chapter 4 – Hydrology
Please add your comments about how to improve Chapter 4 here.
8 thoughts on “Chapter 4 – Hydrology”
The information in this chapter is quite good, but it feels a bit out of place because the next chapter is concerned with mass wasting (chapters 6 and 7 return to hydrology).
I thought the discussion of the different types of storms was perhaps less necessary and extraneous. I thought that the groundwater hydrology section could be reduced or better connected to a more “geomorphologic” topic — maybe subsidence induced by gw pumping or sinkholes influenced by dropping water levels?
Distracting number of spelling errors, i.e. flow spelled sow, surficial spelled wrong, diferent instead of different.
*Basin hydrographs on page 127
Similar to different hydrographs depedning on basin scale/shape could be nice to see hydrographs for different landuses as well
P. 121 has two diagram illustrating Darcy’s Law. The diagram of Qout equation could use a more descriptive caption for that image specifically.
Diagrams illustrating precipitation delivery could enhance understanding, for example illustrating warm vs cold fronts or orographic effect.
I believe that in Fig. 4.8 the “Time” arrow is confusing, it should point down: it has gotten confused most of my student.
The information in this chapter is quite good, but it feels a bit out of place because the next chapter is concerned with mass wasting (chapters 6 and 7 return to hydrology).
I thought the discussion of the different types of storms was perhaps less necessary and extraneous. I thought that the groundwater hydrology section could be reduced or better connected to a more “geomorphologic” topic — maybe subsidence induced by gw pumping or sinkholes influenced by dropping water levels?
Distracting number of spelling errors, i.e. flow spelled sow, surficial spelled wrong, diferent instead of different.
*Basin hydrographs on page 127
Similar to different hydrographs depedning on basin scale/shape could be nice to see hydrographs for different landuses as well
P. 121 has two diagram illustrating Darcy’s Law. The diagram of Qout equation could use a more descriptive caption for that image specifically.
Diagrams illustrating precipitation delivery could enhance understanding, for example illustrating warm vs cold fronts or orographic effect.
I believe that in Fig. 4.8 the “Time” arrow is confusing, it should point down: it has gotten confused most of my student.