Unit FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOLOGY
- Course
- Earth science and environment
- Study-unit Code
- A004561
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
INTRODUCTION TO SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
| Code | A004721 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Angela Bertinelli |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline geologiche e paleontologiche |
| Academic discipline | GEO/02 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Stratigraphy. Facies. Heteropy. Lithogenetic cycle: weathering, sedimentation, diagenesis. Physical characters. Sedimentary structures. Depositional environments (terrigenous, carbonatic, evaporitic) and stratigraphic logs. Classification of sedimentary rocks: terrigenous, carbonatic, evaporitic, siliceous and dolostones. The Umbria-Marche stratigraphic succession. Practical laboratory and fieldtrips. |
| Reference texts | Geologia del sedimentario - M.E. Tucker (Dario Flaccovio Ed.); slides of the lessons and other material provided by the professor. Other suggested texts: Rocce e successioni sedimentarie - A. Bosellini, E. Mutti, F. Ricci Lucchi (UTET); Sedimentology, Process and Product - M.R. Leeder (Springer, in english); Capire la Terra - Press, Siever, Grotzinger & Jordan (Zanichelli Editore Bologna); Sedimentografia - F. Ricci Lucchi (Zanichelli); Atlas and glossary of primary sedimentary structures - F.J. Pettijohn & P.E. Potter (Springer Verlag); Rocce sedimentarie, guida alla descrizione degli affioramenti rocciosi - M.E. Tucker (Dario Flaccovio Ed.); Atlante delle rocce sedimentarie al microscopio - A.E. Adams, W.S. Mackenzie, C. Guilford (Zanichelli Editore Bologna); Facies models - R.G. Walker (Geoscience Canada Reprint Series 1); Introduzione alla studio delle rocce carbonatiche - A. Bosellini (Italo Bovolenta Ed.); Guide Geologiche regionali n. 7 , vol. I and vol. II “Appennino Umbro-Marchigiano” (BE-MA ed.) |
| Educational objectives | The aim of the course of Geology 1 is to supply students with knowledge and tools to be able to perform facies analysis, with descriptions of the main lithological features (with classification of rocks), and to define the depositional environments (using stratigraphic logs). The main acquired knowledge will be related to: principles of stratigraphy and sedimentology; characterization of the depositional environments; characterization of the Umbria-Marche stratigraphic succession (as palaeoenvironmental evolution through space and time). The main acquired applying knowledge will be: to recognise and to describe different lithological features, sedimentary structures, depositional environments, and to be able to perform facies analysis (through the use and the realization of stratigraphic logs, too). |
| Prerequisites | In order to be able to better understand the topics described within the course of Geology 1, you should have successfully passed the exames of Physic Geography and Earth Science Fundamentals, Palaeontology, Mineralogy. |
| Teaching methods | Theoretical lessons and practical training, with laboratory and field trips. |
| Other information | Attendance at lessons is recommended, mainly for laboratory and field trips. |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists in an unique test, subdivided in two different parts: a practice part with the aim to describe and classificate rock samples (closed stimulus with open answer practice test) an oral part to test the ability of the student to contextualize the descriptions given in the practice part (open stimulus with open answer oral exam) The two parts of the exame will be complete inside an unique session, with variable duration, depending on the preparation of the student. The exame will be evaluated in thirtieths, on the base of the quality of the open answers given for the practice and the oral parts. |
| Extended program | Stratigraphy. Facies. Heteropy. Stratigraphic gaps. Subsidence and sedimentation. Lithogenetic cycle: weathering, sedimentation, diagenesis. Texture and physical characters; grain properties. Sedimentary structures. Depositional environments (terrigenous, carbonatic and evaporitic). Stratigraphic logs. Classification of sedimentary rocks: terrigenous, carbonatic, evaporitic, siliceous and dolostones. The Umbria-Marche stratigraphic succession. Practical laboratory and fieldtrips. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | 13 |
INTRODUCTION TO TECTONICS
| Code | A004722 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline geologiche e paleontologiche |
| Academic discipline | GEO/03 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Structural geology and tectonics: the structures of the earth’s crust (primary structures, faults and fractures, folds, metamorphic fabrics) from the outcrop to global scale. Plate Tectonics: constructive, destructive and conservative plate boundaries. Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Umbria-Marche Apennines. Stereographic projections; map analysis; basic analysis of geological maps and geological sections. |
| Reference texts | M. Barchi - Appunti di Tettonica per il corso di Geologia 2 (disponibile su piattaforma unistudium). Haakon Fossen – Geologia Strutturale – Geologia Zanichelli Haakon Fossen – Structural Geology. – Cambridge University Press Complementary texts: Walter Alvarez – Le montagne di S. Francesco. – Fazi Editore Walter Alvarez – The mountains of Saint Francis – WW Norton Società Geologica Italiana - Guide Geologiche Regionali (n.7) - Appennino umbro-marchigiano - Parte generale, da Pag. 12 a pag. 88. - BE-MA editrice. |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge and description of the geological structures, from outcrop scale (structural geology) to global scale (plate tectonics). Use of the stereographic projection. Reading of a geological map; devising a simple geological section. |
| Prerequisites | Basic knowledges of geography, mineralogy, stratigraphy, sedimentology and petrography, to be acquired in the courses of the I year and in the first semester of the II year. |
| Teaching methods | Lectures. Practice and exercises. E-learning procedures through Uni-Studium Platform. |
| Other information | All teaching materials are available for download on the Uni-Studium Platform, which is also used as the main tool for teacher-students communications. The teacher can be also contacted at the following e-mail address: massimiliano.barchi@unipg.it. |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists of a practical/graphical part (lasting about 2 hours), followed by an oral exam (lasting about 30 minutes), where the student is asked to discuss critically the main theoretical topics included in the course program. |
| Extended program | Part I – Tectonics: the structures of the Earth’s crust. 1- Introduction to the course and primary structures 2- Faults: geometry and kinematics 3- Basic Fault Mechanics 4- Normal faults 5- Thrust and Reverse Faults 6- Strike-slip Faults 7- Fold geometry and classification 8- Basic Fold Mechanics 9- Joints and Fractures 10- Metamorphic fabrics Part II – An introduction to plate Tectonics 1- The plate tectonics theory 2- Divergent Plate Boundaries 3- Transform plate boundaries 4- Convergent plate boundaries 5- Basic Plate Kinematics and Dynamics Regional Geology Seminar: the Umbria-Marche Apennines case-history. Practice and Exercises Use of the stereographic projection, Map analysis techniques, Geological cross-sections. |