Semester: | 4th |
Course Type: | Elective |
Course Code: | Ε4202 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 2 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 1 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 10 |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 4 |
Teaching Units: | 3 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | - |
Dynamic Geology deals with the deformation of Earth's solid crust and large-scale tectonic structures associated with it. In other words, it deals with the deformation at the scale of Tectonic Plates, examining both the auttoalistic patterns that operate today on the planet, as well as the orogenetic zones, continents, and oceans, which give us data on the distribution and movement of plates, in older geological periods.
Introduction to Geotectonics (Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere, etc). Oceanic Basins, Precambrian Shields, Phanerozoic Regions. Introduction to Lithospheric Plate Tectonics Divergent Margins, passive margins. Transform Faults. Convergence Margins. Subduction Zones, island arcs and active continental margins. Collision, Orogenesis – Anatomy of Orogenetic Zones. Structure of the Main Orogenetic Chains. Old Orogens, Young Orogens.