|Delivery Type||Delivery length / details|
|Lecture||35 hours of lectures|
|Seminars / Tutorials||25 hours of seminars/group work with field exercises|
|Assessment Type||Assessment length / details||Proportion|
|Semester Assessment||ASSESSED TERM PROJECT (WRITTEN REPORT AND ORAL PRESENTATION)||40%|
|Semester Exam||3 Hours WRITTEN 3 HOUR EXAM||60%|
|Supplementary Assessment||AS ABOVE||100%|
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- Describe and explain the long-term climatic fluctuations between glacial and interglacial periods in the Arctic and former climatic conditions on Svalbard
- Evaluate Quaternary landscape evolution, and the corresponding sedimentary record of Svalbard, in the light of Quaternary environment change
- Discuss the role of postglacial relative land uplift and the formation of raised marine coastal sequences
- Assess the relative importance of geomorphological processes active during glacial and interglacial periods to the formation of tills, glaciofluvial deposits, lacustrine deposits and landforms produced during deglaciation
- Select and justify the application of different field methods and data interpretation techniques (including field mapping) to the study Quaternary of landscape change
Students will be introduced to the Quaternary history of Svalbard, within the context of long-term climatic fluctuations between glacial and interglacial periods in the Arctic. The module will explain the Quaternary landscape evolution and sedimentary record of the Svalbard.
- Climate variations within the Arctic, including long-term climatic fluctuations between glacial and interglacial periods in the Arctic.
- Quaternary landscape evolution and the sedimentary record of Svalbard.
- The formation of glacial and interglacial sedimentary sequences during the last glacial/interglacial cycle
- Postglacial relative land uplift and raised marine coastal sequences.
- Tills, glaciofluvial deposits, lacustrine deposits and landforms produced during deglaciation.
- Field methods, including mapping techniques and methods of data interpretation.
|Skills Type||Skills details|
|Application of Number||Not directly developed.|
|Communication||For the assessed term project, students complete both a written report and an oral presentation .|
|Improving own Learning and Performance||Developed during fieldwork and in private study.|
|Information Technology||Library usage of journal papers and web-searches will be undertaken. Students will use Web of Knowledge and other electronic data retrieval packages in literature searches.|
|Personal Development and Career planning||Not directly developed.|
|Problem solving||Problem solving is addressed during fieldwork .|
|Research skills||Research skills are developed during fieldwork, and in subsequent report writing .|
|Subject Specific Skills||Fieldwork skills, including data collection and analysis|
|Team work||Team work is developed during fieldwork, and in subsequent report writing.|
This module is at CQFW Level 6