Programme

INTRODUCTION. GENERAL FOUNDATIONS. CRUST (OCEANIC AND CONTINENTAL), LITHOSPHERE (OCEANIC AND CONTINENTAL) AND MANTLE: OVERVIEW ON COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, RHEOLOGY, THERMAL PROFILE. TECTONICS: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. PLATE MARGINS. EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS: GEOMETRY AND KINEMATICS OF NORMAL FAULTS, ORIGIN OF RIFT SYSTEMS, RIFTING MODELS, AND EVOLUTION OF A RIFTING SYSTEM, SEDIMENTATION/TOPOGRAPHY AND MAGMATISM ASSOCIATED TO RIFTING, MID-OCEAN RIDGES, PASSIVE MARGINS. COMPRESSIVE TECTONICS: GEOMETRY, KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF CONVERGENT AND COLLISIONAL MARGINS, OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE, ARCHITECTURE, KINEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF COLLISIONAL BELTS. STRIKE-SLIP TECTONICS: TRANSFORM AND STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS AND RELATED GEODYNAMICS, TRANSPRESSION AND TRANSTENSION, PULL-APART BASINS. HOT SPOT AND MANTLE PLUMES. HAZARD LINKED TO TECTONIC PROCESSES: DEFINITION OF RISK, EARTHQUAKES, MEGA-EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMI, VOLCANOES, LAND-SLIDES. INTEGRATION: GEOMAPAPP, SEISMIC METHODS, ANALOG MODELING, NUMERICAL MODELING AS TOOLS TO STUDY TECTONIC PROCESSES.

Core Documentation

- EARTH STRUCTURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND TECTONICS (SECOND EDITION). B. A. VAN DER PLUIJM , S. MARSHAK (NORTON & COMPANY, 2004)
- PLATE BOUNDARY ZONES. S. STEIN, J.T. FREYMUELLER, ED. AGU GEODYNAMIC SERIES, VOL. 30, 2002.
- DYNAMIC EARTH, PLATES, PLUMES AND MANTLE CONVECTION, DAVIES, G.F., CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999.
- GEODYNAMICS: SECOND EDITION, TURCOTTE, D. L. AND SCHUBERT, G., JOHN WILEY & SONS, NEW YORK, 2002.
- GEOLOGIA STRUTTURALE. H. FOSSEN, ZANICHELLI ​2020.
- BIBLIO PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE

Type of delivery of the course

In case of COVID-19 emergency, it will be followed all the rules for safe teaching and evaluation. In particular, this course will be provided in a virtual mode.

Attendance

Mandatory

Type of evaluation

Grades will be computed based on this relative weighting scheme: Presentation and discussion of 1 paper suggested by the Instructor following the student interests = 30% Oral exam on the base of the programme presented during the course = 60% Class partecipation = 10% In case of COVID-19 emergency, it will be followed all the rules for safe teaching and evaluation. In particular, the exams related to course will be provided in a virtual mode.