Semester: | 3rd |
Course Type: | Mandatory |
Course Code: | Y3205 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 4 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 2 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 14 |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 6 |
Teaching Units: | 6 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | Υ2201 (lab) |
The main objective of this course is to introduce undergraduate students to the basic principles, aspects and methods of structural geology and its special importance in the applied fields of geology (hydrogeology, technical geology, ore geology, seismotectonics etc.).
Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics; The frame of plate tectonics; Force and stress; Deformation and strain; Rock mechanics and rheology; Fractures and brittle deformation; Extensional fractures, joints, and veins; The birth and growth of faults; Kinematic and paleostress analysis; Recognition of faults in the field; Folds and fold mechanisms; Foliation and cleavage; Lineations; Boudinage; Shear zones and fault-related rocks; Contractional regimes and thrust faults; Extensional regimes and normal faults; Strike-slip faults, transpression and transtension.