GEOLOGICAL CARTOGRAPHY WITH LABORATORY

1 - DEFINITION AND MEANING OF GEOLOGICAL MAPS
- Official Mapping: history
- Unofficial Geological maps.
- Base Geological Maps
- Thematic Maps and Special Cards
2 - THE OFFICIAL MAPPING after CARG Project
3 - TYPES OF GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES (stratigraphic and tectonic limits)
4 - GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF LINEAR AND TIMELY ELEMENTS
- Conventional Symbols
5 - STRATIGRAPHIC DISCONTINUITY
- Recognition of different types of discontinuity surfaces

6 - FOLDS
- Types of folds and their identification on geological maps
7 - FAULT
- Types of faults and their interpretation on the geological maps
8 - MAIN thrust
9 - SECONDARY thrust
10 - AGE OF STRUCTURES AND TIMES OF STRAIN
11 - tectonic structures and styles
12 - READING AND INTERPRETATION OF GEOLOGICAL MAPS
- Legend
- Criteria for stratigraphic and tectono-stratigraphic structuring of the legend

- Regional context of the geological maps
13 – Compilation of geological sections at different scale

B. Simpson: Lettura delle carte geologiche – Flaccovio Ed.

B.C.M. Butler e J.D. Bell: Lettura e interpretazione delle carte geologiche. Zanichelli Ed.