Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

305207 (v.1) WASM Structural Analysis of Complex Terrains 601


Area: WASM Mining Geology Teaching Area
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 40.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 20 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 20 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: An intensive, practically-oriented course in recording, analysing, interpreting and documenting structural data from complexly deformed terrains. Topics include recognition and geometric analysis of stress and strain in outcrop, ductile failure and unravelling multiple deformed sequences, brittle failure and the brittle-ductile transition with regard to controls on mineralisation, stereographic projections, and the presentation and documentation of complex geometries and histories.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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