Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
GEO/03 (STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Course
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2018 - 18/01/2019)
Lesson hours
56 lesson hours
Prerequisites
The course is part of the basic geological formation of students in Geological Sciences. The course does not require prerequisites with other courses of the Degree Course. However, knowledge of the basic concepts of lithology, sedimentology, petrography, physics and mineralogy is required.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of Earth's interior and its rheological behavior.
Understanding and analyis of the global tectonics processes. Understanding, analyis and modelling of the physical processes involved in the plate tectonics.
Knowledge of the principal geological features
of the different regions of the Earth, with progressively growing insights on the Mediterranean area, the
the Italian peninsula and Northern Italy (the Alps, the Northern Apennines, and the Padan Plain).
Course contents
Internal structure of the Earth: The forces acting on lithosphere. Plate tectonics: principle and mechanisms.
Motions of plates on a plane and a sphere. Stability of triple junctions. Geodetic measures of plate movements.
Model Nuvel 1. Hot spots. Magnetism and paleomagnetism of the Earth. Earthquakes and focal mechanisms
solutions for the different types of fault.
Principal tectonic features of the Earth. Cratonic regions: shields and basins. Divergent margins: oceanic ridges
and plains, continental rifting, passive margins. Convergent margins: trench-arc systems. Collisional margins:
thrust and fold systems, metamorphic core, different kinds of mountain chains. Transform margins: strike-slip
and pull-apart basins. European and Mediterranean geology. Introduction to Italian geology. Geology of the
Alps, the Appenines and the Po Plain.
Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures and two educational field trips concerning the Alps and Northern Apennines.
Reccomended or required readings
Notes and papers provided by the teacher.
“Geodynamics” D. L. Turcotte & G. Schubert, second edition, Cambridge U Press;
“Tectonics” E. M. Moores & R. J. Twiss, Freeman and Company;
“An introduction to Italian geology” C. Doglioni & G. Flores, Lamisco;
Assessment methods
The evaluation will be carried out through a final oral exam to verify the achievement of the educational objectives of the course. The contents of the lectures and educational field trips are the subject of the examination.
The ability to communicate and use an appropriate scientific language will be taken into account in the evaluation.
Further information
The evaluation will be carried out through a final oral exam to verify the achievement of the educational objectives of the course. The contents of the lectures and educational field trips are the subject of the examination.
The ability to communicate and use an appropriate scientific language will be taken into account in the evaluation.
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