spring 2020 GEO-8113 Field course in Exogene Geology - 5 ECTS
Admission requirements
All external applicants have to attach a confirmation of their status as a PhD student from their home institution.
More information regarding PhD courses at the Faculty of Science and Technology is found here:
https://uit.no/om/enhet/artikkel?p_document_id=376462&p_dimension_id=88131&men=28714
The course has the capacity of 15 students.
If there are more applicants than available places in the course, students will be prioritized in the following order:
1. PhD students at the PhD program in Science at UiT - The Arctic University of Tromsø
2. PhD students at other PhD programs at UiT - The Arctic University of Tromsø
3. PhD students at other universities
Course content
This course provides field experience in interpreting Quaternary and ancient depositional environments based on mapping and studies of sedimentary sections and geophysical profiles (seismics, GPR). The first part of the course is based at the University of Tromsø's field station at Skibotn where sediment petrographic studies and a Quaternary mapping exercise are used to interpret the history of deglaciation, valley-filling and sea-level change. The second part takes place in Eastern Finnmark where modern and postglacial, fluviodeltaic and regressive, coastal systems at Tana and Sandfjorden are used to demonstrate the relationship among depositional process, morphology and architecture. The field course concludes with a study of ancient analogues in the Precambian sedimentary rocks on the northern side of Varangerfjorden.- About the course
- Campus: Tromsø |
- ECTS: 5
- Course code: GEO-8113
- Responsible unit
- Institutt for geovitenskap