identification and description of fluvial landforms: • meanders, lakes, braided streams, floodplain, natural leveé, waterfall, rapids and delta; grading; • 7 rejuvenation of rivers: reasons and resultant features, • such as point, terraces and incised meanders; river capture (stream piracy): the concepts of abstraction • and river capture; features associated with river capture (captor stream, captured stream, misfit stream, elbow of capture, wind gap); and superimposed and antecedent drainage patterns • 25/02/2014 Catchment and River Management [3 hours] TASK 1 Data Handling importance of managing drainage basins and catchment • areas; impact of people on drainage basins and catchment • areas; and case study of one catchment area management strategy • in South Africa. 8 03/03/2014 GEOGRAPHICAL SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES (application to climatology and geomorphology) Mapwork Techniques [2 hours] Reading and interpreting synoptic weather maps, • satellite images and other weather and climate related data; map and photo interpretation includes reading and • – analysis of physical and constructed features; and applying map-reading skills to maps and photos. • Topographic Maps [2 05/03/2014 contours and landforms; • sections; • direction: magnetic true north and magnetic • declination; gradient; • intervisibility; and •
• identification and description of fluvial landforms: meanders, lakes, braided streams, floodplain, natural leveé, waterfall, rapids and delta; • grading; 7 • rejuvenation of rivers: reasons and resultant features, such as point, terraces and incised meanders; • river capture (stream piracy): the concepts of abstraction and river capture; features associated with river capture (captor stream, captured stream, misfit stream, elbow of capture, wind gap); and • superimposed and antecedent drainage patterns 25/02/2014 Catchment and River Management [3 hours] TASK 1 Data Handling • importance of managing drainage basins and catchment areas; • impact of people on drainage basins and catchment areas; and • case study of one catchment area management strategy in South Africa. 8 03/03/2014 GEOGRAPHICAL SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES (application to climatology and geomorphology) Mapwork Techniques [2 hours] • Reading and interpreting synoptic weather maps, satellite images and other weather and climate related data; • map and photo interpretation – includes reading and analysis of physical and constructed features; and • applying map-reading skills to maps and photos. 05/03/2014 Topographic Maps [2 • contours and landforms; • sections; • direction: magnetic true north and magnetic declination; • gradient; • intervisibility; and