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Summary.
This course is proposed to replace Landforms and is upgraded (so to speak) to a 3000-level course in order to be slightly more rigorous. The idea here is to combine both geomorphic surface processes (things that denude the landscape, that make a topography) with sedimentological processes (things that develop sedimentary basins). There are two reasons for combining what could easily be two courses: 1. to reduce the teaching load, and 2 (and more importantly) to emphasize the connection between source and sink. A lot of effort these days goes into this connection (e.g., development of NSF MARGINS initiative), and it helps tie in climate, too.
A book that best (but not completely) captures this is Philip Allen's Earth Surface Processes, parts of which are quite advanced. It lacks perhaps a good geomorphic component, but a new book by Bob and Suzanne Anderson (The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes) would be available by the time this course is first presented.
This is an example of a course that might easily be two, and we need to hear arguments for doing this. At the moment, there is no specific course in DES that present sedimentology as a process, and it seems a gap that this could fill.