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FRAGILE ALPINE ENVIRONMENTS

Learning Objectives

 

You will ...      You will learn ... realize that mountain soils need thousands of years to develop, but are very easily disturbed.   recognize how important slope processes are for the environment.   realize that the mass movement processes play an important role in the development of soils.   how slope processes influence and often disturb the evolution of soils.   that soils have horizons and how horizons are built up.   which main mass movement processes exist in the alpine environment.

You will understand ...      You will be able to ... the main factors that influence the characteristics of mountain soils and define the soil type.   why mountain regions show an extremely high variety of soil types.   how different the various mass movement process are.   explore the impact of climate, relief, geology and time on the evolution of mountain soils.   increase your knowledge of mass movement processes in relation to natural hazards.   see mass movement processes in the context of the global change discussion.

 

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