Unit name | Structural Geology |
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Unit code | EASC20006 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2C (weeks 13 - 18) |
Unit director | Professor. Hutton |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Successful completion of year 1 of the Geology degree programme curriculum |
Co-requisites |
n/a |
School/department | School of Earth Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
Elements of rheology; ductile, brittle and semi-brittle structures; plate tectonics; case studies; stereographic projections; identifying chronological sequence of deformation.
Aims:
This unit builds on the Level 1 Dynamic Interior II-B component by examining deformation structures in a more quantitative manner and in three dimensions. The main aims are i) to enable you to recognise and develop skills in recording the principal field attributes of most naturally occurring tectonic structures, ii) generate skills in the quantative and semi quantative methods of palaeostress and palaeostrain analysis, and iii) to interpret geological structures in terms of process and tectonic regimes.
On successful completion you will be able to:
Lectures and practicals.
The course is examined as a whole in closed session in June (100%). Although there will be no formal practical examination, questions concerning stereographic projection, although not requiring actual formal plotting of data, will appear in the written examination. The written exam will contain approximately 30 questions, all compulsory, to be completed in three hours.
Haakon Fossen, 2010, Structural Geology, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51661-8