- Course Code
- GL 3022
- Credit Points
- 30
- Course Coordinator
- To be confirmed
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
GL 3017
Notes
Only available to students in Programme Year 3 in the School of Geoscience.
Overview
a) Geotectonics: The Lithosphere and Lithospheric Plate motions. Extensional regimes and Extension Models; Compressive, Strike Slip and Oblique Slip regimes.
b) Ductile structures: Folds; linear and planar structures associated with folds; polyphase deformation. Elementary strain analysis.
c) Tectonic, sedimentary and eustatic controls on sequence development, classification of basin types, techniques of stratigraphic analysis of selected examples of basin succession from the global stratigraphic record.
d) Classwork is based upon published 1:50,000 scale British geological maps. Students are given specific map based tasks and problems to solve, either individually or in small groups.
e) Workshops on absolute dating of rocks, including computing and algebraic analysis.
Structure
3 one-hour lectures per week and 2 three-hour practical/self-directed learning sessions per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Examination (80%); in-course assessment (20%).
Resit: Examination (80%); in-course assessment (20%).