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GL3525: FIELD & MAPPING TECHNIQUES 2 (2024-2025)

Last modified: 01 Nov 2024 14:16


Course Overview

This course teaches the advanced field skills necessary for all practising geologists, and serves as preparation for the summer mapping project (GL4023). The material builds on that covered in GL3026 (Field & Mapping Techniques 1). Preliminary laboratory classes in Semester 2 are used to prepare students for the field exercises on the 10-day field trip. The students will learn how to systematically collect, analyse and present their own field data as part of wider scientific studies.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Adrian J. Hartley

Qualification Prerequisites

  • Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course comprises 1) background laboratory classes and day field trip prior to embarking on residential field trip. 2) 10 days of residential field work undertaken during second half-session. It consists of advanced field observation, mapping, data recording and analysis of the stratigraphic, sedimentological, structural, and petrological characteristics of rocks in selected areas. Maps, sections, logs, graphs and field notebooks, together with posters of field syntheses and interpretations, are produced and developed during the course.

Course Aims:

  • Conduct independent fieldwork effectively and safely.
  • To provide training in a wide range of field techniques to collect and interpret geological and geophysical field data from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks as well as accurately recording structural data from ductile and brittle deformation zones.
  • To provide a comprehensive set of field skills to allow confident undertaking of independent field mapping.
  • Reconstruct the structural and sedimentological history of the North West Highlands from first principles using field-based observations.

Associated Costs

DescriptionValue
Field Trip350.0000

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Field Trip Log

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Feedback

Laboratory exercises will be carried out and feedback given as soon as is practicable. Field-based assessments are marked and returned during the fieldcourse, giving feedback on one exercise before completion of the next. Class-based exercises will be fed-back after each exercise.
Learning Outcomes
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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

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Learning Outcomes
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