Description: (Formerly numbered 200.) Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; reading period, eight hours. Preparation: two courses from 101, 105, M107. Requisite: course 100. Analysis of geomorphic theories since scientific revolution, with emphasis on catastrophism, uniformitarianism, glacial theories, isostasy and eustasy, evolution and cyclicity, thermodynamics and mechanics, quantification, and current paradigms. View of each theme in its contemporary milieu. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0