The course provides informations on the structure of our planet, on plate kinematics and on the dynamic of active processes, with emphasis on subduction and collision, with examples from the West and east Pacific, Tethyan belt, and Mediterranean region. The course provides also provide practical tools to read and elaborate geological maps and to construction geological cross-sections.
teacher profile teaching materials
1) Principles of geophysics for the structure and dynamics of the Earth.
Earth's structure from seismological, gravimetric and magnetic data
2) Plate tectonics:
Principles of plate tectonics, kinematics and velocity models. From kinematics to dynamics.
3) Regional tectonics.
Subduction and collision processes. The Western Pacific. The Eastern Pacific the Andean system. The tetid system: from the Himalayan collision to the Mediterranean.
Practical exercises are focused on reading geological maps and creating geological sections. Stereographic analysis and representation of geological and structural data
Fowler The Solid Earth An Introduction to Global Geophysics (Cambridge University Press)
The teacher also makes available images shown during the lessons and Geological maps
Additional reading:
Allan Cox, Robert B. Hart, "Plate tectonics. Mechanisms and methods" (Zanichelli Press)
Programme
The course is divided into three main blocks:1) Principles of geophysics for the structure and dynamics of the Earth.
Earth's structure from seismological, gravimetric and magnetic data
2) Plate tectonics:
Principles of plate tectonics, kinematics and velocity models. From kinematics to dynamics.
3) Regional tectonics.
Subduction and collision processes. The Western Pacific. The Eastern Pacific the Andean system. The tetid system: from the Himalayan collision to the Mediterranean.
Practical exercises are focused on reading geological maps and creating geological sections. Stereographic analysis and representation of geological and structural data
Core Documentation
Texts and teaching material:Fowler The Solid Earth An Introduction to Global Geophysics (Cambridge University Press)
The teacher also makes available images shown during the lessons and Geological maps
Additional reading:
Allan Cox, Robert B. Hart, "Plate tectonics. Mechanisms and methods" (Zanichelli Press)
Type of delivery of the course
My teaching part (geologic map reading and construction of geological profiles) will be done in presence; during the laboratory activity students will receive several geologic maps with different complexityAttendance
Laboratories are mandatory at 75%Type of evaluation
Construction of a geological cross section and oral examination