ANALYSIS OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES

recognition of the main types of rocks, the main forms of the landscape and the fundamental tectonic structures

through lectures, exercises in the classroom and excursion in the countryside

Origin of the Earth

Shape, size, mass and movements of the Earth

The interior of the Earth

Internal and external geological processes

The modeling of the terrestrial relief

Causes and morphogenetic processes

The fluvial morphogenetic system

The morphogenetic marine coast system

The morphogenetic and glacial climate system, periglacial, temperate, arid and humid heat.

Lakes

The karstic morphogenetic system

The rocks: Definitions, classification and study techniques.

Loose rocks and sediments: genetic processes, sedimentary phenomena.

Terrigenous, carbonate, siliceous and evaporitic rocks and sediments.

Metamorphic rocks: genetic processes and classification

Eruptive rocks. Genetic processes and classification.

Stratigraphy and chronology: principles and definitions.

Relative and absolute history.

Tectonics and structural geology: methods and analysis.

The volcanoes

Maps and geological sections.

The great structures of the earth's crust and their evolution.

Land resources.

Reading geological maps. The course will be supplemented by an excursion on the ground during which the phenomena and structures discussed during the course will be observed.

Recommended texts:

Francesco Carraro - Geology of the Quaternary. The geological evolution of surface environments

Panizza - Elements of geomorphology. Pythagoras ed.

Pompeo L. Casati - Earth Sciences vol.1 Elements of general geology