PETROGENESIS AND GEODYNAMICS
cod. 23306

Academic year 2015/16
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Alessandra MONTANINI
Academic discipline
Petrologia e petrografia (GEO/07)
Field
A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity
Student's choice
51 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The main objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the magma
generation in the different geodynamic environments through time and the relations
between magmatic/metamorphic processes and plate tectonics

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

APPLICATION OF TRACE ELEMENT AND ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY TO
PETROLOGY

PETRO-TECTONIC ASSOCIATIONS:

Mid-ocean ridge magmatism
Mantle plumes and oceanic islands
Mantle plumes and basaltic plateaux
Arc magmatism
Collisional granitoids
Continental rift magmatism
Introduction to Archean and Proterozoic terranes

FIELD EXCURSIONS:

-EXAMPLES OF FOSSIL OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE (Ligurian ophiolites, N Apennines)
-CRYSTALLINE BASEMENTS AND POST-VARISCAN MAGMATISM (the Ivrea-
Verbano Zone, southern Alps)
-OROGENIC HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM (Sesia Zone and Pennidic units from W Alps)

Full programme

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Bibliography

TEXTBOOKS

- John D. Winter (2010), Principles of igneous and metamorphic petrology, Ed.
Prentice Hall
-H. Rollinson (1998) - Using geochemical data (cap. 4 e 6)
- M.G. Best and E.H. Christiansen, Igneous Petrology (Blackwell Science)
- A. Philpotts and J. Ague, Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
(Cambridge University Press)
- Lecture notes

Teaching methods

Lectures and field excursions

Assessment methods and criteria

oral examination

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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