PETROGENESIS
cod. 1001277

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Petrologia e petrografia (GEO/07)
Field
Discipline mineralogiche, petrografiche e geochimiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: PETROGENESIS AND GEODYNAMICS

Learning objectives

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<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" style="">The main objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the magma generation in the different geodynamic environments through time <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Course unit content

 
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<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Mid-ocean ridge magmatism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Mantle plumes and oceanic islands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Mantle plumes and basaltic plateaux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Arc magmatism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Collisional granitoids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Continental rift magmatism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Introduction to Archean and Proterozoic terranes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Crystalline basements in <st1:country-region w:st=""on""><st1:place w:st=""on"">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Ophiolites from the Alpine-Apennine system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" font-family:="" style="">Plio-Quaternary magmatism from Central-Southern Italy </span><span font-family:="" style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>

Full programme

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Bibliography

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<p class=""MsoNormal""><span lang=""EN-GB"" style="">- M.G. Best and E.H. Christiansen, Igneous Petrology (Blackwell Science)<br />
- A. Philpotts and J. Ague, Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology</span><u><a href="""http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Igneous-Metamorphic-Petrology-Philpotts/dp/0521880068/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259592749&sr=1-1"""></a></u><span lang=""EN-GB"" style=""> (Cambridge University Press)<br />
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