Regional Geology

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes with detailed explanation and critical, using multimedia resources, on papers and documents that address problems and realities of the geology of Timor. Classes for analysis of visual documentation, illustrative of the various aspects of the geology of Timor.Theoretical and practical classes where the students contact with techniques of analysis and interpretation of geological maps and tectonic structures and analysis and interpretation of geological models.

Field classes for observation and recording of geological data, duly accompanied by teachers.

Learning Outcomes

OBSERVATION: The objective of this discipline is to make students aware of the regional geology of the place where the course takes place so that they become able to understand and criticize the geological maps and publications about the study area. In this and following points the specific case of Timor-Leste is contemplated. The implementation of the course in another context requires the reformulation of this specific curricular unit.

a) To perform an analysis and synthesis of the geological evolution of Timor in the wider context of the Band arc, Eastern Indonesia and Australia northwest margin;

b) To study the geological materials, their characteristics, their conditions of formation/deposition, their evolution and their organization in the regional tectonic framework and in a universal chronostratigraphic scale;

c) To characterize some problems of the geological organization, inserted in the evolutionary context and in the global tectonic framework.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) Interpretation of the geology of Timor and it’s integration in the regional tectonic setting;

b) General aspects of the geology and tectonics of Timor, Banda Arc and northwest continental margin of Australia;

c) Identification and ordering of the large geological units of Timor;

d) The stratigraphy of the geological formations of Timor and their characteristics from the point of view of sedimentation, magmatism, metamorphism and tectonics;

e) General aspects of the Geomorphology of Timor;

f) Critical analysis of cartography and available geological information;

g) Analysis of scientific papers and publications on the geology of Timor;

h) Practical classes primarily for mapping in the field and use of auxiliary methods of mapping research

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 25.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 25.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Audley-Charles, M. G. (1968). The Geology of Portuguese Timor. Geological Society of London Memoir 4, 76 pp.

Bull, W. B. (2009). Tectonically active landscapes. Wiley-Blackwell (eds.)

Burbank, D. W. & Anderson, R. S. (2011). Tectonic geomorphology. Wiley-Blackwell (2^nd eds)

Charlton, T. R., Barber A. J & Barkham S. T. (1991). The structural evolution of the Timor collision complex, eastern Indonesia. Journal of Structural Geology 13, 489–500.

Hall, R. (2012). Late Jurassic–Cenozoic reconstructions of the Indonesian region and the Indian Ocean. Tectonophysics,  570-571, 1–41.

Hamilton, W., (1979). Tectonics of the Indonesia region. USGS Prof. Paper, 1078.

Moores, E. M. & Twiss, R. J. (1995). Tectonics. Freeman (eds.).

Tate, G.W., McQuarrie, N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Bakker, R.R., Harris, R., & Jiang, H. (2015). Australia going down under: Quantifying continental subduction during arc-continent accretion in Timor-Leste. Geosphere, 11 (6), 1860–1883 (doi:10.1130/GES01144.1).