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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Civil Engineering |
| Grao en Tecnoloxía da Enxeñaría Civil |
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| Xeoloxía aplicada |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Xeoloxía aplicada | Code | 632G02006 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1 Introdución á Xeoloxía |
Concepto de Xeoloxía. Contexto e en partes da xeoloxía. Enxeñaría Xeolóxica e Xeoloxía aplicada á enxeñaría. O ciclo das rochas. Obxectivos e técnicas da investigación xeolóxica. |
| 2 La Tierra |
Origen, estructura y composición de la Tierra. Métodos de reconocimiento. Geocronología absoluta y relativa. Estudio de la evolución de la Tierra. Tectónica de Placas. |
| 3 Minerals |
Structure, composition and properties of minerals. Methods of study and recognition. Classification of minerals. Stability, change and alteration minerals. Silicates. The clay minerals. Mineralogical environments. |
| 4 Igneous Rocks |
Magmas. Locations and types of igneous rocks. Texture and recognition of igneous rocks. Differentiation and fractional crystallization. Crystallization systems. Plutonism. Volcanism. Classification of igneous rocks. |
| 5 As rochas metamórficas |
Metamorfismo e factores de metamorfismo. Concepto de fácies metamórficas e zonas. Paragênese mineral. Geothermometry e geobarometría. Textura, estrutura e recoñecemento das rochas metamórficas. Minerais metamórficos. Foliação e xistosidade. Tipos de metamorfismo. Clasificación das rochas metamórficas. |
| 6 Sedimentary rocks |
Metamorphism and metamorphic factors. Concept of metamorphic facies and zones. Mineral paragenesis. Geothermometry and geobarometría. Structure, texture and recognition of metamorphic rocks. Metamorphic minerals. Foliation and schistosity. Types of metamorphism. Classification of metamorphic rocks. |
| 7Soil Formation and Analysis | Rocks and soils. Soil formation. Mechanical weathering, biological and chemical igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Determinants of weathering. Soil processes. Profile of soil and climate. Structure and texture of the soil. The phases of the soil. Types of particles. Clay soils. Volumetric ratios. Granulometry. Grain size and soil classifications. |
| 8 Tectonism |
The scales of deformation. Brittle deformation; joints and joints, solid and rock matrix, structural elements and types of faults, rocks and associated phenomena, faults and stress field. Ductile deformation, folds, classification, structures and phenomena associated with the folds. Microtectónica. Epirogénicos movements, eustatic and isostatic. Types of mismatches. Thrusts. Slumps. Diapirism. |
| 9 Applied Geomorphology |
Erosion. Transport mechanisms. Modelling of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Sedimentation and river erosion, fluvial deposits, river hydrography, determinants of floods and flooding. Erosion and sedimentation glacier types of glaciers, forms of erosion, glacial deposits. Nordic Geomorphology. Coastal and marine action. Wind erosion and sedimentation. Geomorphological mapping. |
| 10 Regional Geology |
Main morphostructural structures and units of Galicia and the Iberian Peninsula in the European context. |
| 12 Introduction to Rock Mechanics |
Rocks, rock masses and discontinuities. Geomechanical properties, behavior, handling and use of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Overview of the discontinuities in the rock mass, methods of study. Classification of rock masses, methods RQD and RMR. Mechanical behavior of joints. Rock mass instability, types of instabilities. Exploration of the rock mass, recognition and characterization, methods of auscultation. Methods of consolidation, strengthening, waterproofing and drainage of the rock mass in civil works. |
| 11 Hydrogeology of soils and rocks |
The hydrological cycle. Hydrology of watersheds. Flow in saturated media. Aquifers and springs. Hydrogeological characteristics of soil and rock debris and fractured. Piezometric level and hydraulic loading. Darcy's law. Hydraulic parameters, anisotropy. The equations of groundwater flow. Determination of hydrogeological parameters in the field and laboratory. Principle of effective stress |
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