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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...
19
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