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PRACTICALS: IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS Alphabetic division AF - GZ
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Type of Course:
For stages and internships
Disciplinary Sector:
Mineral Geological Resources and Mineralogic and Petrographic Applications for the Environment and Cultural Heritage
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
There are not constrains.
Objectives
Contents phases, minerals and rocks;
geochemical spheres and geodynamic envinronments;
formation and solififification of magmas;
plutonic and volcanic (effusive and explosive) igneous rocks and related textures and structures;;
metamorphic rocks, their textures and structures;
metamorphic envinronments and protoliths;
textural and structural similarities and differences
between igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Extended Syllabus 1) Geochemical and geophysical shells of Earth with related physical, chemical and mineralogical features
2) Formation of magmas, intensive variables (T and P), volatiles (H2O) and geodynamic context
3) Classification of igneous rocks by textural and structural characteristics
4) Plutonic rocks and their textures and structures
5) Effusive Volcanic rocks and their textures and structures
6) Explosive Volcanic rocks and their textures and structures
7) Sub-volcanic, dikes and sills and their textures and structures
8) Formation of metamorpohic rocks, intensive parameters (T and P), volatiles (H2O) and geodynamic context
9) Regional, burial and high-P metamorphic rocks
10) Contact, thermo-dynamic and by impact metamorphic rocks
11) Oceanic-floor metamorphic rocks
12) geodynamic context, plate limits, tectonic effects and petrological processes Il contesto geodinamico globale, limiti di placche, effetti tettonici e processi petrologici
13) Volcanic rocks from Phlegrean Fields and Vesusius (Field-work)
Recommended Bibliography Understanding Earth, VII edition, eds. Grotzinger and Jordan.
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.
Teaching Methods Taught class.
Independent and group work of the student, aided and verified by the teacher.
Field work on volcanic area (Naples)
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Short written test (multiple-choice questionnaire) followed by oral exam consisting in mesoscopic recognition, description and classification of igneous and metamorphic rock samples (at least two samples).