The course aims to provide adequate knowledge and understanding of geodynamic processes active in distinct tectonic contexts through the use of velocity vectors.
Acquisition of ability to perform geodetic surveys with GNSS and Total Station receivers of topographic elements in areas affected by tectonic deformation.
Active tectonics: the goal is obtained by the analysis of crustal architectures in distinct active tectonic domains, by the collection of several information provided by different geological, geophysical and geodetic subjects; furthermore, the course provides the technics to analyse surficial and deep information, characterization of local and remote stress field and their relationship, and modelling of geodynamic contest.
Photogeology: the course provides skills useful to the correct management of territorial aerophotogrammetric survey. Students will gain the skill to deal with geological themes through the application of morphostructural technique.
21 hours (3 CFU) of frontal lessons on principles of geodynamic processes and exercises on velocity fields, 21 hours (3 CFU) of frontal lessons on monitoring of geodynamic processes and field work.
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.
Frontal lessons, exercises, final excursion on field
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.
Geodynamic processes, global tectonics, tectonic structures related to volcanism and seismicity activity, collisional tectonic domains, subduction tectonic domains, continental rift domains, geodesy.
Active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, geomorphic index, geodynamic of Mediterranean domain, active tectonic of eastern Sicily region.
- P. Kearey, F.J. Vine, Tettonica Globale, Zanichelli Ed.
- A. Cox, R.B. Brian Hart, La tettonica delle placche, meccanismi e modalità, Zanichelli Ed.
- E.A. Keller, N. Pinter, Active Tectonics - Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landskape, Pearson College Ed.
Educational material on the web site http://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2021/
- Active Tectonics Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landskape Edward A. Keller, Nicholas Pinter
- Tectonic Geomorphology D.W. Burbank, R.S. Anderson
- Guida Alla Fotointerpretazione Pitagora Editrice Bologna
Educational material on the web site http://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2020/