GEOL334-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

Tectonics and the New Zealand continent

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

Description

Tectonic and structural aspects of convergent and divergent plate margins and their application to the geological development of New Zealand.

Prerequisites

Co-requisites

Recommended GEOL351, GEOL352

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay and presentation 25% Essay and presentation in term 1
Laboratory Assessments 30% Laboratory Assessments in term 2
Final examination 45% Final examination

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Kearey, P. , Klepeis, Keith A., Vine, F. J; Global tectonics ; 3rd ed. ; Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Twiss, Robert J. , Moores, Eldridge M; Structural geology ; W.H. Freeman, 1992.

Van der Pluijm, Ben A. , Marshak, Stephen; Earth structure : an introduction to structural geology and tectonics ; 2nd ed; W.W. Norton, 2004.

Course links

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Additional Course Outline Information

Academic integrity

The first half of the course will focus on tectonic and structural aspects of convergent and divergent plate margins. An overview on subduction zones, collisional orogens as well as extensional margins and rifts will be provided. We will be seeking to discover what structural geology can tell us about mountain building processes, relationships between deformation and metamorphism and the feedback between tectonics and climate.

In the second half of the course the concepts developed in the first half of the course will be used to understand the geological development of New Zealand for the last 500 million years, which is a history of plate boundary dynamics. This part of the course will focus on four major topics, the origin of the New Zealand basement rocks and terranes, the protracted history of subduction-related magmatism, the break-up of the basement and isolation of New Zealand in the Cretaceous, and the structure and tectonics of the present plate boundary.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $718.00

International fee $3,350.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Geological Sciences .

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