Geological environments and structures

The class of Geological Environments and Structures includes three distinct modules, which aim at furnishing fundamental concepts of Earth Sciences, introducing the Earth Systems and its constituents, including the major processes occurring at the Earth's surface and interior. Main topics will be: fundamentals landforms, sediments, tectonic structures, and elements of modern global tectonics useful to acquire the basic knowledge on distribution, geometry, characteristics and relationships of rock bodies in outcrop and subsurface.

At the end of the course the students will acquire:
- The ability to recognize the major types of sedimentary and deformed rocks and reconstruct the formation processes.
- The basic knowledge on geological stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy.
- The fundamentals on basin evolutions.
- The main knowledge on tectonic structures at different structural levels.
- The fundamentals of the structure of Earth and geological effects of plate tectonics.
- The fundamentals on endogenous and exogenous processes shaping Earth's surface.
- The ability to identify major landforms and reconstruct their formation process.