Metamorphic geology and survey

The metamorphic geology course has the aim to give the main principles of the metamorphic and magmatic processes at the base of the continental crust formation in the different geological and geodynamic context. To this aim the student at the end of the course will be able to:

a) understand the basic principles of the solid-state rheology as well as the elastic and mechanical properties of the main rock types;

b) describe and classify the different types of deformation structures, reconstructing the setting and the space-time evolution;

c) collect, process, mapping disaggregated structural data, identifying the style and reconstructing the space-time evolution;

d) read and interpret geological maps in the crystalline basement areas;

e) reconstruct the deformation- blastesis relationships occurred during the tectono-metamorphic evolution of metamorphic units;

f) determine, with the integration of opportune geotermobarometric techniques, the changes of pressure and temperature registered by the basement rocks, reconstructing the P-T trajectories;

g) contextualize within the Paleozoic-Oligocene Mediterranean geodynamics the kinematic of the Calabro-Peloritani microplates.

classification of igneous and metamorphic rocks;

principles of optical microscopy for the recognition of fundamental minerals;

stereographic projections;

 central Mediterranean geological-geodynamic structure.