Geology and Geological Resources

Recommended Prerequisites

General knowledge about geology, mineralogy and petrology.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes: exposition and criticism, using mainly audio-visual means, of documents on the Regional Geology. Analysis of situations that illustrate and exemplify reference cases. Incidence of the ability to observe and interpret at various scales. Manipulation of geological and tectonostructural analysis and interpretation techniques

Field lessons: observation and recording of geological and mineral occurrences, with teacher accompaniment

Laboratory practices: study of metallic minerals and textures using a reflective light microscope.

Learning Outcomes

A) To analyse and synthetize of the geological region that is the object of the edition of the course;

B) To study the geological materials, their characteristics, their conditions of formation/deposition and concentration, 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

D) To recognize and understand the principles that rule the natural concentration of metals in the Earth's crust

E) To characterize and identify metallic minerals using appropriate field and laboratory methods and techniques.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1) Interpretation of the regigeology it’s integration in the regional tectonic setting

2) General aspects of the local geology and tectonics

3) Identification and ordering of the local large geological units

4) The stratigraphy of the local geological formations and their characteristics from the point of view of sedimentation, magmatism, metamorphism and tectonics

5) General aspects of the Regional Geomorphology

6) Critical analysis of cartography and available geological information

7) Analysis of scientific papers and publications on the local geology

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

9) Classification schemes for ore deposits

10) Main types of ore deposits in the area of each course edition, geotectonic framework and mineralizing processes

11) Mineral resources and the extractive industry

12) Characterization of mineral occurrences.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 25.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 25.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAFIA ADEQUADA AO LOCAL EM ESTUDO EM CADA EDIÇÃO DO CURSO|ADEQUATE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE REGION UNDER CONSIDERATION IN THE EDITION OF THE COURSE:

Exemplos para o caso de Timor-Leste | Examples for the East-Timor case:

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

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.

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).

CRAIG, J. R.