Syllabus
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Course Code: GT-502 Course Name: Plate Tectonics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction to plate tectonics: historical background, evidence of plate motion, plate driving force, lithosphere, asthenosphere, types of place boundaries and sense of displacements of plates, oceanic and continental types of lithosphere, constituents, major structural seismological features of the earth interior. | |
| 2 | Constructive plate boundaries: origin and evolution, internal and external structure, composition; gravity anomaly. Conservative plate boundaries: structure and evolution, transforms faults and plate motions, seismicity, palaeomagnetism and its application in plate palaeo positions. | |
| 3 | Destructive plate boundaries: surface manifestations, geophysical and geological characteristics: gravity anomaly, sedimentological, metamorphic and magmatic characteristics; associated geological features: oceanic trenches, island arc, volcanic arcs, accretionary wedges, fore and back arc basin. | |
| 4 | The Wilson cycle; orogenesis: plate tectonics and mountain building processes, Indian plate: configuration and characters of Indian plate margins and palaeo positions of Indian plate, Himalayan orogeny and tectonic models. | |
