GEOG 372. Running Water Environments.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course focuses on the physical habitat conditions found in streams, rivers, estuaries and deltas. Based on the laws governing flow of water and sediment transport, it emphasizes differences among these environments, in terms of channel form, flow patterns, substrate composition and mode of evolution. Flooding, damming, channelisation, forestry impacts.
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: GEOG 203 and GEOG 272, or ENVR 200 and ENVR 202