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Mountains Lecture 1- Moving plates, building mountains: the basics of plate tectonics
Are mountains vulnerable to clima...,
What are 6 reasons why we should ...,
What drives transport in terms of...
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Mountain Lecture 2- Earthquake! How seismicity builds mountain ranges
What gives rise to stick slip beh...,
What are three faults with the ea...,
What are the four alternative mod...
54
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Mountain Lecture 3- Moving dirt: large scale patterns of erosion
What is weathering 1,
What is erosion 2,
What is mountain building dictate...
53
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Mountains Lecture 4- Poking around the rubbish bin: what we learn from large-scale patterns of erosion
Can detritus from a moutain range...,
Do mountain building processes ge...,
How is sediment transported from ...
21
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Mountains Lecture 5- Deciphering the fingerprints: how erosional processes shape mountain range form
What is a hillslope 1,
What is a channel 2,
Name 6 ways moutain landscape mor...
50
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Mountains Lecture 6- The Black Swan: why extreme events matter, and why they are hard to predict
What is the definition of uniform...,
What is the history of uniformita...,
What does uniformitarianism sugge...
58
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Sea Level Lecture 1- Introduction to sea level, what is it and why should we care?
How many people are estimated to ...,
If antarctic and greenland ice sh...,
How many damage is hurricande kat...
44
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Sea Level Lecture 2- Long-Term Drivers of Relative Sea-Level Change
Are there many driving components...,
What are 4 types of eustatic chan...,
What is tectono eustacy 3
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Sea Level lecture 3- Short-term drivers of relative sea- level change
Can we think of short term and lo...,
Discuss coastal forests 2,
Name a coastal forest 3
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Sea Level Lecture 4- Where the land and the oceans meet: Sea level and coastal processes
Name three features of high energ...,
Name three features of low energy...,
Are high energy coastlines long t...
70
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Sea Level Lecture 5- Reconstructing sea-level change
What are potential issues with in...,
Are instrumental records most pre...,
What are challenges with reconstr...
25
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Sea Level Lecture 6- Future Sea-Level Rise
What is sea level inherently link...,
Will sea level rise likely contin...,
Why will sea level continue to ri...
30
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Quaternary Lecture 1- The Cold Planet- Are We Still In the Grip of an Ice Age?
When has a rapid increase in clim...,
Are we consistently over 400ppm c...,
What does the quaternary period i...
44
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Quaternary Lecture 2- Stable Isotopes: the Roestta Stone of Climate Change
What is atomic number based on 1,
What do elements have a varying n...,
How many neutrons can oxygen have 3
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Quaternary Lecture 3- Earth's Glaciation legacy
When did the ice sheets in the nh...,
When was the last glacial maxiumum 2,
What is palaeo glaciology 3
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Quaternary Lecture 4- Reconstructing environmental change
What can the past tell us 1,
What has the quaternary been domi...,
What is stratigraphy 3
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Quaternary Lecture 5- From extra-terrestrial controls to flickering switches
What is absolute dating 1,
What is radiometric dating 2,
What is incremental dating 3
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Quaternary Lecture 6- The Holocene epoch and global warming
What are important highlights of ...,
When is the end of the pleistocene 2,
What are features of the end of t...
23
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Climate Lecture 1- The Climate System
What is climate 1,
What is weather 2,
What is a system 3
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Climate Lecture 2- Global Energy Cascade
What is the energy source for the...,
What is solar energy equal to 2,
How far away is sun from earth 3
55
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Climate Lecture 3- Water in the Atmosphere
How much water is in the atmosphe...,
If all the water in the atmospher...,
When is latent heat absorbed 3
48
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Climate Lecture 4- Global Atmospheric Circulation and Westher Systems
Name three factors which determin...,
What is wind direction defined as 2,
Discuss the role of pressure grad...
46
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Climate Lecture 5- Oceans and Climate
What can the ocean store 1,
How does global scale oceanic cir...,
Discuss the relation between ocea...
47
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Climate Lecture 6- Climate Variability
What is weather 1,
What is climate 2,
What does climate variability ref...
38
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Water Lecture 1- Hydrological Cycle
If it started raining today what ...,
What is the hydrological cycle 2,
How much water in oceans 3
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Water Lecture 2- How Water Structures the British Landscape.
Is there an east west divide in r...,
How much rainfall does durham hav...,
What does evapotranspiration depe...
27
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Water Lecture 3- Causes and Consequences of Flooding
Is the amount of annual rainfall ...,
What is the physical basis of flo...,
Name two not slow flows through s...
37
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Water Lecture 4- Water in Mediterranean Landscapes
Discuss the geological history of...,
What is the drawdown process 2,
What is the equation for evaporat...
14
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