GEOL480-09S2 (C) Semester Two 2009

Geological Evolution of NZ and Antarctica

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2009
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 26 July 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 October 2009

Description

The course is built around the geological development of New Zealand and Antarctica and will focus on the evolution of the Pacific sector of the Gondwana margin and its break-up to form the Southern Ocean and the austral continents. The connecting theme will be regional tectonics and an integration of data from magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary basin histories into a consistent tectonic story. The validity of a range of tectonic and terrane models will be assessed.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

John Bradshaw

Lecturers

Steve Weaver and Bryan Storey

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Oral presentation 25% A 15 minute oral powerpoint presentation related to one of the topics in Term 3. Each student presentation will be given at one of the seminars in Term 3.
Abstract 25% A one page abstract, submitted at the end of Term 3, summarizing the oral presentation
Essay 50% An essay selected from a list of topics presented at the beginning of the course. The essay will be submitted at the end of Term 4.

Notes

Topics likely to be covered under 1) are
The Mesozoic Pacific basin and accretionary complexes of the margin; The Antarctic continent and the Antarctic plate –overview; Magmatic arcs of the Pacific Gondwana margin (southeast); Magmatic arcs of the Pacific Gondwana margin (southwest;  Cretaceous post-subduction magmatism in Antarctica and New Zealand; Tectonic basis for the development of the Southern Ocean.
Topics in theme 2 are likely to be
Antarctic Precambrian and the origin of the Gondwana continent; introduction to the Ross-Delamerian Orogen in, Antarctica and Australia and NZ; Overview of Ordovician and Silurian rocks in the Takaka & Buller tns, Victorian sedimentary belts, Tasmania and in Antarctica; Student presentations on agreed key relating to the Ross Orogen and Lachlan Fold Belt topics: Cambrian of the Bowers terrane and Takaka terrane and tectonic setting; Regional synthesis and tectonic models.

A detailed time table and reference lists will be available before the beginning of the second semester.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $698.00

* 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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