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GL3527: STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY & TECTONICS (2024-2025)

Last modified: 01 Nov 2024 14:46


Course Overview

This course covers all main aspects of structural geology and tectonics and entails 1 hour lectures and 3 hour practicals each week, together with a field excursion to relatively local geology. The significant practical component allows 'hands on' learning with worked examples being provided by staff. The field excursion allows students to directly apply skills and techniques that have been covered in preceding lectures and practicals. with worked examples then provided in follow-up sessions. The course covers a spectrum of brittle and ductile structures that are developed across a range of scales from microscopic to mountain belt.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Ian Alsop
  • Professor Robert Butler

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?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Structural geology is the investigation of how earth materials deform and links to plate tectonics and understanding the formation of landforms such as mountain ranges. As an applied field, it is linked to resource exploration and production, geo-engineering, seismic hazards, and waste geo-disposal. Skills in structural geology are often listed as an essential sub-discipline by employers.
By working at a range of scales from crystal scale to plate tectonics, you will:

  • Interpret regional surface geology using geological maps, and identify landforms using satellite and other remote sensing data.
  • Construct cross-sections.
  • Be introduced to structural interpretation of seismic data.
  • Identify the main styles of deformation structures, faults, folds, and distributed distortional strain and their analysis.
  • Perform 3D structural analysis using stereographic projections.
  • Perform simple kinematic approaches, relationship of deformation structures to tectonics and their importance for the structure of the crust and its sedimentary basins.

Associated Costs

DescriptionValue
Field trip15.0000

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

Online Exam

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Learning Outcomes
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Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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Laboratory-based exercises will be set and marked and retuurned to students withn two weeks of submission.
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Formative Assessment

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Course Learning Outcomes

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