MRED 101 GEOLOGY

Physical phenomena and geosciences; Earth’s structure (elements, minerals, rocks), structural elements of Earth’s solid crust (magmatic or igneous rocks, sediments and sedimentary rocks, metamorphism and metamorphic rocks); tectonic plates theory; geological time scale, geological cycles; sedimentology and depositional environments; stratigraphy principles, stratigraphic correlations; introduction to tectonics, morphotectonics, microtectonics; geomorphology; environmental geology.

Laboratory exercises: Geological processes sequence and stratigraphic principles; introduction to topographic maps, topographic sections of various scales; introduction to geological maps, drawing of simple geological sections, geological section with: superpositional layers of different thicknesses and calculation of the actual thickness of the layers, disconformity layers, faults, fault and vein intrusions, sections transverse to the strikes; calculation of surface appearance of separating plane from point measurement, strike calculation from drilling data.