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Plate tectonics

Code: 71938
ECTS: 3.0
Lecturers in charge: prof. dr. sc. Alan Moro
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Lecture typeTotal
Lectures 30
* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)
Description:
Continental drift and plate tectonics; Movement of plates and their geometric connection; Continental grabens; Passive continental margins and abyssal plains; Mid-ocean ridges; Hot spots; 7. Subduction zones, island arcs and active continental margins; Transform faults; 9. Terrains; 10. Early Precambrian plate tectonics; Plate tectonics and mountain formation; Old orogens; Young orogens - the highest areas of the Earth.Crust,
Literature:
  1. Allan Cox & Robert B. Hart (1986): Plate Tectonics - How it Works (Blachwell Scientific Publication; Inc.; 392 p.)
  2. Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede & Ronald Blakey (2011): Plate Tectonics - Continental Drift and Mountain Building (Springer; 212 p.).
  3. Philip Kearey, Keith A. Kleppeis & Frederick J. Vine (2009): Global Tectonics (third edition; Willey-Blackwell; 482 p.)
1. semester
Mandatory course - Regular study - Environmental Geology
Mandatory course - Regular study - Geology
Mandatory course - Regular study - Geology
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