UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION |
The external geological cycle and the sediment routing-system |
UNIT 3: WEATHERING, SOILS AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS |
Weathering and erosion, types and rates.
Soil formation and soil types.
Sediment transport.
Formation and classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks.
Diagenesis |
UNIT 5: THE COASTAL ZONE |
Terminology related to the coastal zone. Coastal environments. Morphodynamics. |
UNIT 7: GRAVITATIONAL PROCESSES |
Gravitational processes in emerged and underwater settings. |
SEMINARS |
Seminar 1: Rocks with clocks
Seminar 2: ¿What does the Earth do with the CO2?.
Seminar 3: Weathering processes in rocks. |
STUDIES EXCURSION |
Geological inspection of the Ramallosa-Baiona route to study the control that the geology, marine and fluvial dynamics exert on the coastal geomorphology. Identification of the human impact on the coast |