2024
Structural Geology
Name: Structural Geology
Code: GEO10081L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/160 hours
Scientific Area:
Geosciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Development of thinking in terms of geometric and kinematic insight, understanding spatial and temporal geological phenomena that cause the deformation of rocks. Development of skills in the interpretation of maps, building profiles and description of the geological succession of geologic events in a given region (Geological History).
Understanding the importance of structural studies of integrated geological phenomena.
Using the stereographic Schmidt net in the resolution of exercises related to spatial orientation of planes and lines in structural geology.
Understanding the importance of structural studies of integrated geological phenomena.
Using the stereographic Schmidt net in the resolution of exercises related to spatial orientation of planes and lines in structural geology.
Contents
Theoretical: 1 - Basic concepts of structural geology; 2 - Dynamic analysis; 3 - Kinematic analysis; 4 - Mechanical behavior of rocks, 5 - Descriptive Analysis and Classification: faults, folds, shear zones, joints and diaclases; 6 - Relationship between Structural Geology and tectonics.
Theoretical and Practical: 1. Using geometric and statistical stereographic projection in structural geology, 2. Structural interpretation of geological maps, including the identification, description and interpretation of structures at various scales, as well as understanding the processes that originate them.
Fieldwork: Study visits for consolidation of knowledge. Annually two days of field work are planned in places where the conditions of the various geological structures allow excellent observation and interpretation.
Theoretical and Practical: 1. Using geometric and statistical stereographic projection in structural geology, 2. Structural interpretation of geological maps, including the identification, description and interpretation of structures at various scales, as well as understanding the processes that originate them.
Fieldwork: Study visits for consolidation of knowledge. Annually two days of field work are planned in places where the conditions of the various geological structures allow excellent observation and interpretation.
Teaching Methods
Lectures: Exhibition of structured syllabus, always illustrated with real examples of World and Portuguese geology, enrolling actively the students in order to stimulate critical thinking and reflective capacity.
Practical classes: under the guidance of the teacher students will make the analysis and interpretation of geological maps aimed to identify patterns of outcrops that allow us to interpret three-dimensional structures represented in maps. The stereographic projection classes will be taught by example and follow the exercises solved by both the teacher and the students.
Field work: two field trips a day in duration each.
Final evaluation with theoretical and practical exams (50% each) or final evaluation with theoretical and practical exams (40% each) and field trip report (20%).
Practical classes: under the guidance of the teacher students will make the analysis and interpretation of geological maps aimed to identify patterns of outcrops that allow us to interpret three-dimensional structures represented in maps. The stereographic projection classes will be taught by example and follow the exercises solved by both the teacher and the students.
Field work: two field trips a day in duration each.
Final evaluation with theoretical and practical exams (50% each) or final evaluation with theoretical and practical exams (40% each) and field trip report (20%).
