GEOLOGIA STRUTTURALE

GEO/03 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

CARMELO GIOVANNI MONACO


Learning Objectives

Ability to recognize, describe and interpret the tectonic structures of the crust both at the meso- and microscale and at the regional scale.
Ability to recognize and describe the deformation mechanisms of rocks and to interpret large regional tectonic structures, both in a convergent, divergent and transcurrent settings.


Course Structure

Frontal lessons, exercises, final excursion on field (6 CFU, 42 hours).

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professor Giorgio De Guidi.



Detailed Course Content

Basics of rock mechanics, rheology and rock deformation mechanisms. Structural analysis and
interpretation of major geological structures.
Stress and strain in two and three dimensions. Planar and linear structures. Folds. Shear areas, faults and
fractures. Extensional tectonics. Salt tectonics. Transcurrent tectonics. Fold and thrust belts. Relations
between deformation and metamorphism. Use of stereographic projections in structural analysis.
Recognition of brittle and ductile deformation structures on the ground.



Textbook Information

H. Fossen - Geologia Strutturale - Zanichelli Ed.

Educational material on the site http://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2021/




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