NNMK13000U CANCELLED: Quaternary Landforms: Processes, Architecture and Sediments (1)

Over thousands of years, the landscape has been a background for life in Denmark. The landforms and sediments in the landscape are of fundamental importance for the society as a raw material and groundwater resource. In Denmark, pollution from agriculture, exploitation, and other activities is often transported through sediments. Most of the sediments were formed during the former ice ages by glaciers, melt water streams, sea level changes and periglacial processes in the deglaciated landscape. This is all caused by global environmental changes. The course aims to give the students an understanding of the genesis of the landscape and its internal architecture in relation to the glacial environmental changes especially over the last 150.000 years. Processes, sediments and landforms in modern glacial environments will be studied as an analogue to the ice age landscape. Sedimentological, biological, and structural geological methods will be demonstrated in the field at selected Danish localities. We will also study the geological history from the stratigraphy in open sections and borings. Analyses of digital elevation models, sediment core databases, and geological sections will be used to propose conceptual depositional models for selected areas. Initially, the course will focus on specific problems in the landforms, sediments, and stratigraphy of NW Sjælland. Subsequently, we will focus on glacially overprinted landscapes with examples from Mors, NE Sjælland and Møn. Finally, groups of students will write a report about spatial analysis of glacial landforms, sediments and stratigraphy including a proposal of a morphological-geological model for a selected study area in Denmark.