Semester: | 8th |
Course Type: | Elective |
Course Code: | Ε8211 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 2 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 1 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | - |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 4 |
Teaching Units: | 3 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | Y3205E4202 |
It is a specialized course that offers students a basic knowledge of the geological structure and evolution of the European continent, particularly the orogenies that shaped it in geological time.
BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS. The geographical and geological dimension of Europe. Early views on the geology of Europe. Tectonic plates theory and the structure of Europe; TYPICAL POST-OROGENIC BASINS OF EUROPE. Description of the post-organic basin from the Russian platform to the Pannonian basin; ARCHEAN EUROPE: Baltic Shield and Fennoscandia, Karelian, Sveconorwegian, Svecofennian, Timanides; PALEOZOIC EUROPE: Scandinavian and British Caledonides; VARISCAN EUROPE: Variscides, Variscan (Paleotethyan) Hellenides, Uralides; ALPINE EUROPE: Betics, Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, Balkanides, Apennine, Dinarides, Albanides, Hellenides, Caucasus, Pontides Taurides Anatolides.