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PETROGRAFIA CON LABORATORIO

Teaching Staff

ROSOLINO CIRRINCIONE - Module Petrography - GEO/07 - 6 CFU
PATRIZIA FIANNACCA - Module Petrography
ROSOLINO CIRRINCIONE - Module Petrography - GEO/07 - 6 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Petrography
  

  Students must be able to recognize and describe the main rock types of the earth's crust, to classify them according to modern classification schemes is based on mineralogical and chemical; describe in general terms the processes that have led to their genesis.

• Petrography
  

  Students must be able to recognize and describe the main rock types of the earth's crust, to classify them according to modern classification schemes is based on mineralogical and chemical; describe in general terms the processes that have led to their genesis.

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Detailed Course Content

• Petrography
  

  Petrography and petrology, basic concepts; composition, structure and classification of igneous rocks; generation and differentiation of magmas; magmatic petrotectonic association. Sedimentary rocks: basic concepts and methodology; classification of sedimentary rocks. Definition, conditions and types of metamorphism; metamorphic process and metamorphic rocks.

• Petrography
  

  Petrography and petrology, basic concepts; composition, structure and classification of igneous rocks; generation and differentiation of magmas; magmatic petrotectonic association. Sedimentary rocks: basic concepts and methodology; classification of sedimentary rocks. Definition, conditions and types of metamorphism; metamorphic process and metamorphic rocks.

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Textbook Information

• Petrography
  

  Le rocce e i loro costituenti. Lucio Morbidelli, Bardi Editore

• Petrography
  

  Le rocce e i loro costituenti. Lucio Morbidelli, Bardi Editore

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