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Geology
Teaching Staff: To be announced
Course Code: ΤΠ-1005
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 1st
ECTS: 4
Teaching Units: 3
Teaching Hours: 3
Short Description:
- Historical Data and Flashback of Geology, Definition, Object and General Principles of Geology, Scientific Branches and Methods of Geology.
- The Solar Planetary System, Earth as Planet, The Structure of the Earth Sphere, Continents and Oceans, Age of Earth.
- Structural Characteristics of the Earth. Formation of core, mantle, crust, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Convection in Earth's core and production of its magnetic field. Mechanical layering of the Earth. Surface Dynamics, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Processes.
- Lithospheric Plates, Plate Tectonics, Movements of the crust, Hydrographic Networks, Lithospheric Plate Movement Mechanism, Thermal Transfer Currents, Lithospheric Convergence Types. Sea-floor spreading and continental drift, Geodynamic elements of Earth- Mid Oceanic Ridges, trenches, transform faults and island arcs, Origin of oceans, continents, mountains and rift valleys.
- Rocks and Minerals, igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks and sedimentary rocks, Mechanisms of rock deformation, Geological Cycle or Rock Deformation Cycle, Classification of Cracks.
- Earthquake Genesis, Seismology, Geological Discontinuities, Gutenberg Discontinuity, Seismic Waves, Detection of seismic waves, Categories, Genesis Mechanisms, Seismic Sequences, Accompanying Phenomena. Volcanoes, Magma categories, Life-time of a Volcano, The Volcanoes Worldwide and in Greece.
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