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Υ5204 - GEOLOGY OF GREECE

 

Semester:

5th

Course Type:

Mandatory

Course Code:

Y5204

eClass URL

Hours per Week

- Lecturing:

3

- Practical/Lab Exersices:

4

Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice:

19

ERASMUS:

 

ECTS:

6

Teaching Units:

7

Prerequisites:

-

Expected Prior Knowlegde:

Y3205


Course Content

It is a synthesis course in which the students are introduced to the geotectonic units and the geotectonic structure of Greece. Furthermore, they learn about the different views on the paleogeographic organization and evolution of the units of Greece and the orogenic cycles that shaped the present-day geological structure. With the practical exercises, students construct cross-sections based on excerpts from the 1:50.000 geological maps of the Geological Survey of Greece.

INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOTECTONIC FRAME OF GREECE. Greece within the alpine orogenic system of Tethys. Organization and evolution of the alpine system of Tethys. Orogenetic mechanisms – shallow and deep geodynamic phenomena; THE HELLENIC ARC. The current geodynamic -geotectonic regime in the Hellenic arc; POST_ALPINE AND MOLASSIC SEDIMENTS OF GREECE (Mollasic formations, age and evolution. Post-alpine basins and formations); THE HELLENIDES Alpine and Pre-alpine formations of the Hellenic Arc. Description of Tectonostratigraphic domains and geotectonic units of Greece; SYNTHESIS. Models of Paleogeographical Organization of the Greeks. Orogenic circles. Orogenetic evolution of the Hellenides.Basic concepts and methods.


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