2009 Course Handbook
GEOS308: Structural and Metamorphic Geology
This unit considers the processes by which rocks become deformed and altered in response to physical conditions in the Earth's crust, such as stress, geothermal gradient and burial-history. Scales range from microscopic to regional. Practical work comprises exercises on geometrical and kinematic analysis of brittle and ductile structures, superposed folding, reconstruction of large structures, deformational and metamorphic textures, metamorphic mineral assemblages, and laboratory and project work on metamorphic and structural styles in different tectonic environments (convergent, wrench and extensional).
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 4 |
| When Offered: | X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: 14 March) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Nathan Daczko |
| Prerequisites: | GEOS230 |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | GEOS340 |
| Unit Designations: |
Technology
Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |