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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
 Subjects |
| Geology |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Geology | Code | 610G02004 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
First | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| I. The Formation of the Earth | 1. Origin of the Earth 2. Earth structure: geochemical model 3. Structure of the Earth: dynamic model. Tectonic plates 4. Earth Dynamics: Earth's energy 5. Origin and evolution of the Hydrosphere. Origin and early evolution of the atmosphere |
| II. The rocks of the Earth | 6. Magmatic rocks: plutonic and volcanic 7. The metamorphic rocks. Types of metamorphism. 8. Sedimentary rocks: detrital, chemical and biological. |
| III. Historical Geology | 9. Stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy. The weather in Geology. Absolute and relative chronology. The geochronological scale. Eons, eras and periods. 10. The Archaic Eon. 11. The Proterozoic Eon 12. The Phanerozoic Eon I: the Paleozoic 13. The Phanerozoic Aeon II: the Mesozoic 14. The Phanerozoic Eon III: the Cenozoic |
| IV. Complementary Themes | 15. Human paleontology 16. Climate change |
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