PETROGRAPHY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic year
2019/2020
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
GEO/07 (PETROLOGY AND PETROGRAPHY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Course
NATURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (01/10/2019 - 15/01/2020)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Teacher
REBAY GISELLA - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Chemistry and physics as done in first year courses.
Learning outcomes
To be able to describe a rock, to classify igneous and metamorphic rocks and to describe their petrogenesi processes.
Course contents
Igneous and metamorphic rocks: how to recognize and classify them from the description of composition and texture. The mantle. Processes generating magma and intrusive and extrusive magmatic rocks. Magmatism and main geodinamica settings. Factors of metamorphism and the formation of metamorphic rocks. Metamorphic reactions: equilibrium mineralogical associations and phase diagrams. Metamorphic facies, geothermal gradients and relationships with different geodinamica settings. Examples of study of mantle, magmatic and metamorphic rocks at the outcrop and sample scale.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons.
Exercises at the blackboard and at home.
Group discussion.
Reccomended or required readings
Klein e Philpotts - Mineralogia e petrografia.2018 - Zanichelli

Facultative:
- Lucio Morbidelli - Le rocce e i loro costituenti -Bardi Editore.
- C. D'Amico, F. Innocenti e F.P. Sassi - Magmatismo e metamorfismo. UTET.
- Arrigo Gregnanin - Elementi di petrografia delle rocce ignee e metamorfiche - ISU Milano.
Assessment methods
Written exam for both modules.
10 Open questions and two exercises, as explained in the classroom.
Further information
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030