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Υ3205 - TECTONIC GEOLOGY

INSTRUCTORS

Lectures:

S. Lozios, Assoc. Prof.

Lab. Training:

S. Lozios, Assoc. Prof.

H. Kranis, Assoc. Prof.

D. Theocharis, Laboratory Teaching Staff

I. Bantekas, Laboratory Technical Staff

G. Danamos, Laboratory Teaching Staff

eClass Webpage

COURSE KEY ELEMENTS

LEVEL / SEMESTER:

EQF level 6; NQF of Greece level 6 / 3rd

TYPE:

Scientific Area, General Background, Skill Development

TEACHING ACTIVITIES - HOURS/WEEK  - ECTS:

Lectures, Practice exercises, Laboratory exercises
4 hours of lecturing,
2 hours of practical exercises per week,
6 ECTS credit

Prerequisites:

Υ2201 - Introduction to Geology (recommended)

Language of instruction and Assessment:

Greek  (V.S.1 English)

Availability to Erasmus+ Students:

YES in English

COURSE CONTENT:

A. Lectures

  • Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics
  • Structural analysis and synthesis
  • Deformation and strain
  • Strain analysis in rocks
  • Force and stress
  • Stress in the lithosphere
  • Fracture and brittle deformation
  • Joints and veins
  • Faults and fault zones
  • Kinematics and paleostress analysis in the brittle regime
  • Folds and folding
  • Folliation, cleavage and schistosity
  • Lineations
  • Contractional regimes
  • Extensional regimes
  • Strike-slip, transpression and transtension

B. Practical & Laboratory Exercises

  • The use of stereographic projections in structural geology
  • Work on simplified geological maps containing outcrops of faulted and folded strata (arc, kink, and similar fold methods)
  • Fold classification (limb angle, fold plane dip-fold axis plunge and dip isogons methods)
  • Definition of elongation, stretching, shear strain and strain ellipsoid of deformed objects (fossils, ooids, pebbles, reduction spots, minerals etc.) and cross-sections of faulted or folded layers
  • Paleostress analysis using geometrical and kinematic data from conjugate faults, joints, veins, and stylolites and laboratory triaxial compression tests.
  • Subsurface tectonic maps
  • Recognition and classification of foliations and lineations from rock samples.

C. Fieldwork

Two one-day field excursions in the wider area of Eastern Corinthian Gulf (active faults and kinematic criteria, thrust faults, joints and open fractures, upright folds). Structural data collection using a Geological Compass

LEARNING ACTIVITIES - TEACHING METHODS:

PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

Activity Student’s effort
Lectures52 hours
Laboratory work and/or exercises26 hours
Fieldwork12 hours
Unguided Study42 hours
Preparation for final Assessment18 hours
Total student effort150 hours

ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

I. LECTURES (35%)

  • Oral Examination and/or
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions and Multiple Choice Test and/or
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions

II. PRACTICE EXERCISES (35%)

  • Written exam with Solving Exercises and Problems

II. FIELD EXERCISES (30%)

  • Oral examination in the field and with evaluation of required Report or Essay

The evaluation criteria of the course and the participation rates are described in the student handbook.

Auxiliary material (questions, exercises, etc.) for the exams is posted on the online e-Class platform

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Suggested Bibliography:

  • PAPANIKOLAOU, D. & LOZIOS, S., 2015, Structural Geology, Da Vinci, 479 p. (in Greek)

Additional Teaching Material:

  • DAVIS, G. H., REYNOLDS, S. J. & KLUTH, Ch. F., 2011, Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions, Wiley, 839 p.
  • FOSSEN, H., 2016, Structural Geology, Cambridge, 510 p.
  • FOSSEN, H., 2016, Structural Geology (e-modules),
  • http://folk.uib.no/nglhe/StructuralGeoBookEmodules2ndEd.html
  • KILLIAS, A., 2009, Introduction to Structural Geology, http://www.geo.auth.gr/537/, (in Greek)
  • ΚΟΥΚΟΥΒΕΛΑΣ, Ι., 1998, Τεκτονική Γεωλογία, Leader Books, 303 σελ.
  • MOORES, M., E. & TWISS, J., R., 1995, Tectonics, W. H. Freeman and Company, 415 p.
  • RAMSAY, J. G. & HUBER, M. I., 1983, The techniques of modern structural geology, v. 1: Strain analysis, Academic Press, 307 p.
  • RAMSAY, J. G. & HUBER, M. I., 1987, The techniques of modern structural geology, v. 2: Folds and fractures, Academic Press, 392 p.
  • VAN DER PLUIJM, B. & MARSHAK, S., 2004, Earth Structure. An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, W.W. Norton & Company, 674 p.

Related Scientific Journals:

1 V.S.: Visitor Students (e.g. ERASMUS)

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