Course - Tectonics - TGB4266
TGB4266 - Tectonics
About
Examination arrangement
Course content
The subject gives an overview of geological processes that are at work in the Earth´s principal tectonic environments, such as rifts, rifted margins, oceanic crust and ridges and mountain belts and how the interplay between these processes create the geological systems we can observe at the Earth´s surface, in the oceans or in the subsurface. The subject provides an overview of the most important tectonic frameworks as we understand them today and demonstrates how knowledge and methodologies from several geodisciplines such as structural geology, sedimentology, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics and geochronology s must be integrated in order to understand them. Each student will be assigned a special topic that they will present in the form of a seminar containing an oral presentation and group discussion.
Learning outcome
Knowledge: The candidates can explain the most important tectonic regimes on Earth, the geological processes that operate in these regimes and the most common methods used in the mapping and understanding of these processes. Each candidate will acquire in-depth knowledge in one particular topic.
Skills: The candidates are able to identify the tectonic régime responsible for a set of geological or geophysical observations and put these into a regional framework. The candidate can address, present and discuss complex relationships inside his or her special topic.
General competence: The candidate can place local observations into a regional context, evaluate the different data types and methods used to understand the regional geology and discuss the interaction between tectonic and other geological processes that have contributed to the shaping of the geology of a region.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, compulsory exercises, graded student seminars, compulsory excursion. The course is evaluated by a reference group.
Compulsory assignments
- Field course
- Exercises
Further on evaluation
All exercises plus the excursion must be approved.
In order to pass the course, both the student lecture (accounts for 20% of the grade) and the oral exam (accounts for 80% of the grade) must receive a passing score. Students who have passed the course and would like to try to improve their grade will only re-take the final exam. Students who have failed the course but passed the student lecture will only re-take the final exam.
Required previous knowledge
TGB4150 Structural Geology, Basic Course.
Course materials
Selected scientific papers and book chapters.
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Version: 1
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: AUTUMN 2024
Language of instruction: English
Location: Trondheim
- Structural Geology/Tectonics
- Geophysical Interpretation
- Petroleum Geosciences
Department with academic responsibility
Department of Geoscience and Petroleum
Examination
Examination arrangement: Student lecture and oral exam
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
- Autumn ORD Oral exam 80/100 D
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Room Building Number of candidates - Autumn ORD Student lecture 20/100 A
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Room Building Number of candidates - Summer UTS Oral exam 80/100 D
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Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
For more information regarding registration for examination and examination procedures, see "Innsida - Exams"