GEOL478-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 July 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 22 July 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 October 2012

Description

This course will focus on examining case studies of tectonic sedimentary basins, both ancient and modern. These will include flexural basins such as foreland basins, collisional basins, forearc basins and passive margins; extensional basins such as rift basins, core complexes, backarc basins, intra-arc basins, and oceanic rifts; and strike-slip basins such as pull-apart basins, intra-arc basins, and transpressional and transtensional basins. The case studies will be drawn from around the world and are dependent on student interests.

This course will be run as a series of seminars in which class participation is encouraged. Responsibility for running the class will alternate between Dr Bassett and students. Students will each be responsible for organizing the reading and running at least one of the class lectures. The remaining students will come prepared to take part in a discussion. We will have two 2-3 day trips on the weekends before and after break.

Learning Outcomes

The students will contribute to the running of weekly seminars, will write a manuscript in the style of a research journal article and will gain experience in reviewing each others’ manuscripts. There will be field examples of research in basin analysis that we will draw on as a focus for discussions into tectonic settings.

Students will gain experience in literature searches, giving lectures, and writing, revising and reviewing manuscripts. These skills are all useful for conducting research for and writing a thesis.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable Note

We will have two 2-3 day trips on the weekends before and after break

Course Coordinator

For further information see Geological Sciences Head of Department

GEOL478 was offered in 2007, 2009, 2010 and is generally alternated with GEOL477.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Paper on field project 60% Paper on field project
Paper review 20% Paper review
Class presentations (final exam) 20% Class presentations (final exam)

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $840.00

* 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 .

All GEOL478 Occurrences

  • GEOL478-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012