Guia docente 2024_25 Facultad de Ciencias del Mar

Methodologies

	Description
Introductory activities	The way in which the classes will be taught, the form of evaluation, the field trips, the practical classes and the seminars will be presented. The agenda will be distributed, as well as the necessary material for practical classes and seminars.
Lecturing	The student will be exposed to the theoretical contents that will be evaluated in a final exam.
Seminars	The stereographic projection will be used to represent data of geological structures. Practical work on types of deformations. Identification of large tectonic structures through geographic representation systems. Introduction to the field trip and use of a geological compass.
Laboratory practical	Students will learn to deal with topographic maps, to order rocks and geological processes in time from geological sections. In addition, the student will learn to recognize the most common minerals and types of igneous and metamorphic rocks in nature. An introduction to dating methods in geology will be presented.
Studies excursion	The student will learn to handle the geological compass, recognize rocks and geological structures in the field, their implications for internal processes, and their applied consequences.