Geodynamics and Tectonics

Code: GEO02685L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Geosciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

In this training, the student has the opportunity to analyze different examples of geodynamic and tectonic contexts that make it possible to understand the global dynamics;

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

The aim with this curricular unit is that students can develop skills in observation, identification,
characterization and interpretation of the processes that are responsible for lithosphere recycling. Students will be able to recognize the different tectonic regimes that support the Plate Tectonics.

1 - Modern Tectonics and Internal Geodynamics.
2 - Tectonic Regimes: extensional, contractional and strike-slip.
3 - Fundamentals of Plate Tectonics.
4 - Morphology of the sea floor and continents.
5 - Rheological model of the structure of the Earth's, mantle properties and movements of lithospheric plates.
6 - Divergent margins: intra-continental rifting and triple-points.
7 - Divergent margins: rifting and intra-oceanic seafloor spreading.
8 - Drift of continents and the Earth's magnetic field.
9 - Transform and strike-slip faults.
10 - Convergent margins: subduction zones and magmatic arcs of the Pacific.
11 - Convergent margins: continental collision and orogeny system of Alps and Himalayas.
12 - Case studies of ancient orogenic systems.

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit will have lessons, which will explore the basic fundamentals in light of practical exercises with data from actual cases already studied. It may include a practical part with field work. The evaluation will be by written examination.