Fall semester
MEA 493-004 /
MEA 591 T002,
3 Credits
Their Evolution
and Human Impacts.
http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea591w/lec/002/
Days: Mon, Wed 3:00-4:15;
Location: 1112
Major
world rivers and deltas are the
most
important
environmental features on the surface of the Earth in terms of
their
sedimentary dynamics, direct impact on and by human
activities, and
their quick
response to the climatic changes. Their tremendous
sediment flux
to the
world oceans also plays an important role in global changes
especially with regards to the carbon cycles.
This
course is to review major world rivers and deltas
(Amazon,
Mississippi,
Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges-Brahmaputra,
Indus,
Nile, etc), to understand their initiation, development,
and
evolution
processes, to define the impacts caused by climatic changes
and human
activities, to examine the river-ocean interaction,
sedimentary and
geochemical
processes in term of sea-level change, monsoon, and sediment
dispersal
and
deposition.
Contact: Dr.
Paul
Liu,
Tel: (919)
515-7977;
E-mail:
jpliu@ncsu.edu
More
information,
see:
Global River and Delta
System: Source-to-Sink References on
Google Map
web site has been launched!
see: http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/sealevel/s2s/