Concept of geomorphology
Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them.
Difference between landscape and landform
Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies, living elements of land cover, human elements, and transitory elements. It refers to the combined effect of numerous landforms
A landform is an individual feature--a slope, valley or mountain. It comprises a geomorphological unit, and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape, as part of the terrain, and as such, is typically an element of topography. Landform elements also include seascape and oceanic waterbody interface features such as bays, peninsulas, seas and so forth, including sub-aqueous terrain features such as submersed mountain ranges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins.
Extragenic processes that form landscape
Extragenic processes refer to meteor impacts. They are important because they could help solve the question of where does water come from, or be the cause of mass extinctions (like dinosaurs). There are craters and large structures produced by meteor impact
Endogenic processes that form landscape
Endogenic proceses that form landscape are Volcanism and Diastrophism:
1. Volcanism: intraplate hotspot activity, arc volcanism, sea floor spreading
2. Tectonics: Plate tectonics
3. Orogenesis:
4. Epierogenisis: regional uplift and subsidence caused by mantle anomalies.
Exogenic processes that form landscape
This processes are:
1. Weather and erosion
2. Hydrologic cycle and related fluvial processes
3. Glaciation
4. Eolian
5. Biological activity
6. Men
Example of landforms
Hills
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Sand Dune
Glacier
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