Field Geology EMSC3001  - Details

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Later Year Course


Offered By: Research School of Earth Sciences
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Subject: Earth and Marine Science
Offered in: Winter Session, 2010
Unit Value: 6 units
Course Description:

Advanced field mapping in a deformed terrane,  teaching the basics as to how to make a map when the geology is  complicated. The field component is held over two weeks in June/July  and reports and maps are submitted for assessment at the end of the  field period.  Assessment will be complete by the end of July.

Indicative Assessment:

Based on the quality of the maps and cross- sections produced in the field, plus a participation component.  Field  notebooks will be also examined as supplementary material.

Workload:

Two weeks field mapping to be held in the break between semesters 1 and 2

Areas of Interest: Earth and Marine Sciences
Requisite Statement:

EMSC2012

Incompatibility: GEOL3001
Preliminary Reading:

The Mapping of Geological Structures by K. R. McClay
The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology (Hardcover) by John G. Ramsay and Martin Huber

Science Group: C
Academic Contact: Professor Stephen Cox