Advanced Structural Mapping (GEOL90027)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Off Campus
Overview
| Availability | March - Off Campus |
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| Fees | Look up fees |
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
Upon completion of this subject, students should:
- Have developed the geological mapping skills of students.
- Honed their field mapping techniques;
- Be equipped with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise appropriate for post-graduate research in the field; and
- Be equipped with discipline-specific knowledge and expertise enabling them to take their place as professional geologists in industry or government organisations.
Generic skills
Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- 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; and
- Work as part of a team.
Last updated: 11 March 2025
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: 11 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Notebook assessment including quality of the drawing of observations | On the day of the final lecture | 10% |
Field assessment - description of one key outcrop in group of 4 and presentation | On the day of the final lecture | 10% |
Cross section through the mapped area | On the day of the final lecture | 30% |
Map produced including formlines of bedding and multiple tectonic foliations | On the day of the final lecture | 50% |
Last updated: 11 March 2025
Dates & times
- March - Off Campus
Coordinator Ralf Haese Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 5-days of field excursion with practical exercises Total time commitment 75 hours Teaching period 15 March 2025 to 21 March 2025 Last self-enrol date 17 March 2025 Census date 28 March 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 28 March 2025 Assessment period ends 4 April 2025 March contact information
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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: 11 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Geoscience Course Master of Science (Earth Sciences) Informal specialisation 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.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 11 March 2025