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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

303963 (v.4) Tectonics and the Dynamic Earth 502

Area: Department of Applied Geology
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Computer Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): Admission into 193804 (v.8) Master of Science (Geology) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 192605 (v.7) Graduate Diploma in Applied Geology or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: The mechanical, thermal and chemical structure oflithospheric plates, and the driving mechanism for their relative movement. Evolution and dynamics of the Earth's core and mantle. Rifting, stretching and loading of continental crust, continental margins, ocean tectonics, mid ocean ridges, mantle plumes and continental flood basalts. Subduction zone and arc mechanics, megmatism, metamorphism and sedimentary basins. Collisional orogens, granites, channel flow and exhumation. Cratons, mobile belts and tectonic processes in Precambrian and Phanerozoic orogens. Continental growth through time and the supercontinent cycle.
Field of Education: 010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark


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