Semester: | 7th |
Course Type: | Mandatory |
Course Code: | Y7204 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 2 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 2 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 12 |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 6 |
Teaching Units: | 4 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | Υ2201Y2202Y3201Y3202Y3205Y4201Y4203Y5202Y6205 |
This course covers a wide variety of chapters that are based on the combined knowledge of the principles of General Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Tectonics, Geochemistry and Geology of orthomagmatic and hydrothermal ore deposits. The course’s scope is to understand and systematize the fundamental characteristics, and the genetic processes of the “Sedimentary” and “Surficial-Supergene” ore deposits ”.
Deposit characteristics and models of sedimentary deposits. Chemical sedimentation ─ Banded iron formations (BIF). Clastic sedimentation and concentration of heavy minerals ─ alluvial deposits (placer). Deposits of Evaporites. Brines. Magnesite deposits; Deposit characteristics and Genetic Models of Residual Deposits. Surface and supergene processes ─ Fundamental chemical weathering processes. Lateritic deposits Ni-Fe(–Co). Bauxite deposits-Karst Bauxites. The creation and deposit significance of Gossans; Models of Genesis of Industrial Mineral Deposits. Geology and Genesis of Industrial Minerals Deposits: Perlite, Bentonite, Zeolites, Phosphorites.