Geol.752      TECTONICS                                                                                    (3 C.H)

Overview of plate tectonics, geological techniques in tectonics, principal tectonic features of the earth, divergent margins and rifting, transform faults, strike-slip faults and related fracture zones, convergent margins, tectonics and geology of selected triple junctions, collision orogenesis, anatomy of orogenic belts, the external thrust complex, foreland fold and thrust belts, the crystalline core zone, underplating, uplift and exhumation, nappe formation, back-folding/thrusting and rotation, tectonics and metamorphism, neotectonics, case studies of orogenic belts.

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