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.
Books Recommended:- Tectonics by Moores, E.M. and Twiss, R.J., 1995. Freeman and Company, New York.
- Structural geology of rocks and regions by Davis, G.H. and Reynolds, S.J., 1996. 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York.
- Structural geology by Twiss, R.J. and Moores, E.M., 2007. 2nd Edition, Freeman and Company, New York.
- Global Tectonics by Keary, P. and Wine, F., 1990. Blackwell Scientific Publications, London.