Guia docente 2018_19 Facultade de Bioloxía

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Concept and Principles of Geology	Geology, a Earth science
	Historical and Physical Geology
	Principles of Geology
2. Coordenates in Geología	Spatial coordenates
	Geological time
3. The rocks cycle	Concept
	Classification of rocks and its relationship with the rocks cycle
	External cycle
	Internal cycle
4. The Atmosphere and the Hydrosphere	The Atmosphere: origin, composition, structure and dynamics.
	Ocean water and its dynamics.
	Continental waters: the Hydrological cycle
5. Continental environments	Glacial environment
	Dessert environment
	Alluvial systems
	Lacustrine environment
6. Coastal environments.	Coastal areas: agents and sedimentary processes.
	Erosive coasts.
	Coastal sedimentation: beaches, deltas, estuaries, tidal flats.
7. Marine and ocean regions.	Morphology and distribution of marine bottoms.
	Continental shelf. Reefs
	Deep-sea environments
8. Global Tectonics.	Continental drift
	Internal structure of the Eartha
	Seafloor spreading
	Plate Tectonics
9. Practice Sessions	Recognition of rocks and deformation structures.
	Geomorphology and sedimentary environments from South Galicia
	Concepts on cartography. Introduction to Geological maps.