Learning objectives
The main objectives are
(i) to train students to describe and recognize different types of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the field and in thin section
(ii) to provide a general overview of magmatic activity and metamorphism in the Italian area
Prerequisites
- - -
Course unit content
PRE-VARISCAN BASEMENTS IN ITALY
VARISCAN TO POST-VARISCAN MAGMATISM
Corsica-Sardinia batholith
The Sesia magmatic system and the Ivrea Zone
Mafic intrusions at shallow to deep crustal levels in the Alps
THE VARISCAN BASEMENT IN THE NORTHERN APENNINES AND TUSCANY (Apuane, P.sso Cerreto, Larderello, Monti Pisani)
TRIASSIC MAGMATIC ACTIVITY
THE FORMATION OF OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE IN JURASSIC TIMES
(the ophiolitic sequences from the W Ligurian Tethys)
METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE ALPS: AN OVERVIEW
THE OROGENIC MAGMATISM OF PERIADRIATIC LINE
CENOZOIC MAGMATIC ACTIVITY OF SARDINIA
QUATERNARY MAGMATISM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ITALY
Full programme
- - -
Bibliography
LECTURE NOTES AND REVIEW ARTICLES
Teaching methods
LECTURES, THIN SECTION OBSERVATIONS AND FIELD EXCURSIONS
Assessment methods and criteria
ORAL EXAMINATION
Other information
- - -
