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


Area: WASM Mining Geology Teaching Area
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 40.0
 
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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 to be covered include - recognition and geometric analysis of stress and strain in outcrop, ductile failure and unravelling multiply 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.
 
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Field of Education: 010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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