Academic Year of Degree:
2024/25
624 - Master's in Geology: Techniques and Applications
Teaching Plan Information
Academic year:
2024/25
Subject:
60384 - Integrated basin analysis
Faculty / School:
100 - Facultad de Ciencias
Degree:
624 - Master's in Geology: Techniques and Applications
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
Second semester
Subject type:
Optional
Module:
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1. General information
Integration of stratigraphic and tectonic aspects, but also of petrological, geophysical, mineralogical, paleontological, paleogeographical and hydrogeological aspects that make up the sedimentary basins.
Objectives:
-To know the geodynamic framework of sedimentary basin formation.
-To understand the geological processes that control their formation and evolution.
-To manage data acquisition methodologies to characterize the sedimentary fill and its paleoenvironments.
-To know the effects of tectonic activity on the stratigraphic record in different structural contexts.
-To manage paleomagnetic data and analogue modelling techniques for the study of basin formation and evolution.
-To know physical-chemical techniques and hydrogeological models to reconstruct the evolution of basins.
2. Learning results
Upon completion of the subject, the student will be able to:
1. Know the main stratigraphic and tectonic features of extensional and compressional sedimentary basins.
2. Manage the different methodologies for the characterization of sedimentary fill, the reconstruction of paleoenvironments and the relationship of these with contemporary tectonic structures (both in geometric aspects and sedimentary units).
3. Know the effects generated by tectonic activity on sedimentary fill and the sedimentary models developed in different structural contexts.
4. Know the different tectonic models that generate sedimentary basins and the geodynamic framework in which they are framed, as well as the imprint of contemporary magmatic, metamorphic and hydrothermal processes.
5. Know the main factors that control the filling of basins and the effect of their joint action on the stratigraphic architecture of the basin.
6. Manage the basic programs of paleomagnetic data analysis in the study of regional tectonics and the basic techniques for the interpretation of magnetic fabrics and paleomagnetic data for their application in tectonics and/or magnetostratigraphy.
7. Know and manage the main analogical modelling techniques applied to the study of the formation and inversion of basins and tectonic processes and correctly interpret the results obtained, proposing hypotheses about the necessary conditions for the formation and progressive development of basins.
8. Know the main physico-chemical techniques applied to the reconstruction of basins´ evolution.
9. To know the hydrogeological models that have been developed for large basins.
10. To understand and determine the relative importance of geologic processes controlling the formation and evolution of sedimentary basins.
11. To operate as an independent professional in the field of sedimentary basins.
3. Syllabus
THEORY
- Sedimentary basins and plate tectonics. Controls on evolution and infill: subsidence and isostasy, tectonics, climate, accommodation and sediment supply. Genetic units.
- Initiation and evolution of rifts; basin models and geometries; tectonic-sedimentation relationships; sedimentary models.
- Tectonics and tectonic-sedimentation relationships in foreland basins; filling phases and discontinuities.
- Experimental tectonics. Magmatism. Magnetostratigraphy and magnetotectonics. Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Physical-chemical techniques. Hydrogeological models.
PRACTICAL SESSIONS
- Subsidence and geohistory.
- Analogical modelling of a basin.
- Photogeology and satellite images.
- Correlations.
- Fault activity and reconstruction.
- Genetic units.
- Paleomagnetism.
FIELD PRACTICES: 2 days, one extensional and one compressional basin.
4. Academic activities
- Theory classes (25 hours). Theoretical classes for the program introduction.
- Practical sessions in the classroom (13 hours). Problem solving and case studies in the cabinet and/or computer classroom
- Practical laboratory sessions (8 hours). Analog modelling laboratory and stereoscopy laboratory.
- Practical field sessions (14 hours). Data collection and study of tectonic-sedimentation relationships of real cases in different tectonic contexts.
- Student's personal work (90 hours)
-Tutoring. Solving of doubts arisen during the term by the corresponding teachers.
5. Assessment system
a) Continuous assessment
(a.1) Assessment of theoretical-practical questionnaires (from 0 to 10).
(a.2) Assessment of personal practical work. Completion of one or more reports on the practical activities (field, cabinet and computer) conducted during the term (assessed from 0 to 10).
The final grade for activities a.1 and a.2 will be the weighted average (according to the relative weight of each test indicated at the beginning of the term) of the grades obtained during the term.
Assessment criteria:
The assessment will take into account the conciseness and clarity of the answers, their justification, and the critical capacity to analyse the results obtained as well as their practical implications.
Scale: Final grade = (a.1 x 0.7) + (a.2 x 0.3)
(b) Global assessment.
Students who have not passed the subject by continuous assessment or who have not opted for this type of evaluation will have to take a single theoretical-practical test of all the contents of the subject, whose assessment will represent 100% of the grade.
In order to pass the subject, the final grade must be ≥ 5 (out of 10).
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