Durham General Chat Thread

Im no geographer, but pangaea to now id suspect to be FAR too broad, unless you were simply drawing on examples through time... though that doesnt seem entirely necessary since the title says PRESENT land surface. So the only past events of necessity to the essay are surely the major tectonic motions and such, which I guess might include a brief discussion of pangaea. Id reckon an argument that tectonics and denduation dont affect land surfaces present state is not really viable. Instead argue the extent of other factors contributing, maybe??

This is probably useless, but I like to at least think I am helping!

Good luck Rach and Ali! Im now only 3 homeworks away from doing washing, and then bed!!

Well land surface might incorporate the oceanic bed as well?? Which I would assume landforms do not.. Maybe it expects discussion of underwater tectonics and whatnot also!?

And yes, I stopped geography at year 9... lol

That sucks Robbie. The assignment clearly wasn't your fault so don't worry over it!

I think Alex needs to make a 'I hate Durham!' thread where everyone can vent.

Today is thus far my worst day at Uni. It FREAKIN sucks.

Got ****ed over by a chemistry tutor who claims he emailed everyone the assignment. Its not in my inbox, and he embarassed me so badly in the tutorial.
Got Physics problem sheets back. My 100% average, lets say, is no longer even close to 100% (not a big deal, but it pissed me off even more)
Dr. Richardson's lecture was once again as informative as being set on fire. He CANNOT JUST READ EQUATIONS OUT, he just CANT!!! FFS!
I have far too much work backlogged now, and just got two new problem sheets this morning. OUCH!!
My back has relapsed again after a cramp during the night, and I feel horrific!!
Bloody ****ing pisswank >:JB>B>?:J!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr. Richardson's lecture was once again as informative as being set on fire. He CANNOT JUST READ EQUATIONS OUT, he just CANT!!! FFS!

I return!!!!

Sorry about my disappearance last night, but as Chris said, I was working in the Buttery making lovely toasties

And I did offer help with essays, just e-mail me with random questions, would rather some questions than "Hey this is my title what should I do?" Also bear in mind I have work to do too

arkbar - dude your title is easy, all you have to do is describe the 2 different ways that isostacy occurs (I can't remember what they are, but you will find them in Strahler and Stralher or Fundamentals of the Physical Environment)

secret daughter - Robbie made some good points about it, but he also made one fatal mistake that all scientists make when it comes to essays, he didn't read the very first couple of words in the title - "Critically evaluate" - then he told you to "argue a point" - NOOOOOOOOO, you're not arguing, you're "critically evaluating" - therefore you have to look at both sides of the argument at hand (which is, in this case, whether the denudation and all that stuff does affect PRESENT (not pangea and all that) land surfaces) - so look at evidence that would suggest they DO affect it and also evidence that suggests it DOESN'T - most evidence will say that it will affect it, but any that says against would be good as that's you being "critical" - make sure also not to be too like "Oh this is definitely like this" - BE CRITICAL! lol

Anything else, give me a buzz

Oh - just realised you said this:

"Although, what other factors are there? Climte, relief, lithology i suppose?
I didnt think it was pangea either, but it says land surface, not landforms, which confuzzled me...."

There are other factors, but don't stray away too much, it's not asking you about that! You need to concentrate on what's in the title, describe what they mean about denudation and tectonic effects - don't talk too much about things that they don't want you to talk about. If they wanted to know about climate, they would've asked you about climate

Land surface - it's just whatever land is above the water. Pangea is the first mass of land at the beginning of earth's time, this has split up into all the continents and all that, so you need to look at how tectonic activity and denudation affects anything that is above the water

OK I really must go do some work now

Lots of Love
Kevin

Thanks Kev,

Now convinced my essay is horribly wrong, and I don't have the time/energy to do anything about it. The human one will be different I hope....

Thankyou so much, you're a star!
i love you!
hehe, lots of love ,
your secret daughter

I'll play you tomorrow evening after I hand the work in Robbie if you really want