Course Objectives
- understand the main forces that impact the Earth's surface and subsurface, what drives them and how the Earth responds,
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the theory of plate tectonics and concept of Wilson Cycle
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms of formation of oceanic basins and processes related to the subduction, collision and formation of mage continental cycles,
- geometry and styles of large scale structures in the three main types of plate boundaries (constructive, destructive and conservative) and also plate interiors,
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the driving mechanisms of processes and their products in various plate tectonic settings,
- combine appropriate structural, metamorphic, geochemical, stratigraphical, sedimentological and geophysical evidence to unravel tectonic processes that have been operated.