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Advanced Structural Mapping (GEOL90027)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Off Campus
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
Overview
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Students are taught to map out the structures and complex geometries within a series of multiply-deformed turbite sequence. The course teaches the concepts of key locality and provides strategies to correlate between key localities to produce consistent maps and cross-sections over outcrops at Bermagui Heads and Pt Dickinson in Bermagui in a structurally complex area within a poly-deformed terrane.
Intended learning outcomes
- Develop the geological mapping skills of students;
- equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise appropriate for post-graduate research in the field; equip students with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise enabling them to take their place as professional geologists in industry or government organisations; hone their field mapping techniques.
Generic skills
- Exercise critical judgement;
- undertake rigorous and independent thinking;
- adopt a problem-solving approach to new and unfamiliar tasks;
- develop high-level written report and/or oral presentation skills;
- interrogate, synthesise and interpret the published literature; work as part of a team.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
A knowledge of third-year geology is strongly recommended.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
Notebook assessment including quality of the drawing of observations (10%), field assessment - description of one key outcrop in group of 4 and presentation (10%), cross section through the mapped area (30%), map produced including formlines of bedding and multiple tectonic foliations (50%) all due on the day of the final lecture.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Summer Term - Off Campus
Principal coordinator Kevin Walsh Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 5 hours of lectures, 5 hours of practicals, 30 hours of field work. Total time commitment 85 hours Pre teaching start date 6 February 2017 Teaching period 13 February 2017 to 19 February 2017 Last self-enrol date 7 February 2017 Census date 13 February 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 15 February 2017 Assessment period ends 20 February 2017 Summer Term contact information
Time commitment details
85 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject is taught through the Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences: https://vieps.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/.
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NOTE - This intensive subject is hosted by Monash University and includes a field trip to Bermagui. Students are required to cover an additional cost of $400, which includes transportation to field site, accommodation and meals while in Bermagui.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Reading to be completed during the pre-teaching period: Ramsay & Huber, The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology; Passchier and Trouw, Microtectonics
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Science (Earth Sciences) Course Master of Geoscience Informal specialisation Earth Sciences Major Honours Program - Earth Sciences - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022