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Subject: Marine Geology

Scholarity:

1/2/0; 2.5 UC; 5th year / 1st semester.

 

Programme Contents:

Theoretical:

Global Tectonics; Morphology of the ocean's bottom; equipment for investigation of the ocean's bottom; rheology of the lithosphere; formation and evolution of the oceanic basins; rifting and associated vulcanism models; vulcanic and non-vulcanic margins;  the transition continent-ocean; submarine vulcanism and hydrothermalism; passive and active margins; marine sedimentation and sedimentary environments; glaciations; transgressions; eustatic regressions and fluctuations; the Iberian margin and its conjugated; marine mineral resources and Law of the Sea.

 

Observations:

This subject is obligatory for the Master in Science of the Coastal Zones.

 


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