Mine geology

Description: The subject is a special geological discipline which provides to study a geological structure and geological history of the top parts of crust and also studying of regional structures of crust within east part of Europe and a northern part of Asia

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

• General and historical geology

Course Workload:

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Base disciplines

Goal

• The main purpose of this course is to study the geological structure (Relief, stratigraphy, tectonics, magmatism), minerals of regional structures.

Objective

• to acquaint students with new scientific ideas in geology and modern methodology of regional geological mapping in order to use the acquired knowledge in professional activities

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Knowledge and understanding of modern ideas about the origin, composition and structure of the Earth; the main structural elements of the tectonosphere, lithosphere and crust; principles of tectonic zoning of the crust of continents; the main stages of the formation of regional structures within the eastern part of Europe and northern Asia, stratigraphy of strata composing regional structures, magmatic manifestations in their historical sequence

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• Application of new scientific ideas in geology and modern methodology of regional geological mapping in order to use the acquired knowledge in professional activities; analyze regional structures, magmatic manifestations in their historical sequence and patterns of formation and placement of mineral deposits

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Certain judgments are informed about the geological structure, the history of biological development and the placement of minerals for various regions, allowing for more efficient and purposeful prospecting and exploration of deposits

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• Students' communication abilities are manifested in their ability to collectively discuss various problematic issues of regional geology, joint participation in reports at conferences, scientific publications and various competitions

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• be able to read regional tectonic maps (structures of mobile folded belts (island-arc systems) platforms, young plates); skills to establish the affiliation of any region to certain areas of folding; skills to collect, generalize and critically analyze diverse geological and geophysical information to describe the geological structure and reconstruction of the tectonic history of the region

Teaching methods

When conducting training sessions, it is planned to use the following educational technologies: - Conducting lectures on the discipline is based on an active teaching method, in which students are not passive listeners, but active participants in the class, answering the teacher's questions. The teacher's questions are aimed at activating the processes of assimilation of the material, as well as the development of logical thinking. The teacher outlines in advance a list of questions that stimulate associative thinking and establish connections with previously mastered material.

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type

Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

• 40% of the examination result;
• 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Topics of lectures

• Topic 1 Goals and objectives of the training course "Regional Geology"
• Topic 2 Eastern European Platform
• Topic 3 Siberian platform
• Topic 4 Folded areas of the Ural-Mongolian belt: Ural-Novaya Zemlya folded areas
• Topic 5 Southern Tien Shan
• Topic 6 Altai-Sayan folded region
• Topic 7 Sayano-Yenisei folded region
• Topic 8 Young Epipaleozoic plates of Eurasia: Scythian and Turanian plates
• Topic 9 Young Epipaleozoic plates of Eurasia: West Siberian Plate
• Topic 10 Areas belonging to the Amphibian belt of the Cenozoic (Alpine) folding of the European scale: Eastern Carpathians and Mountainous Crimea
• Topic 11 Areas belonging to the Amphibian belt of the Cenozoic (Alpine) folding of the European scale: The Mountainous Caucasus region
• Topic 12 Areas belonging to the Grain belt of the Cenozoic (Alpine) folding of the Asian scale: Kopetdag and Pamir
• Тақырыбы 13 мезозой және кайнозой (Альпі) қатпарларының Тынық мұхиты белдеуіне жататын аймақтар: Верхоян-Чукчи және Камчатка-Коряк облыстары
• Тақырыбы 14 кайнозой (Альпі) қатпарларының Тынық мұхиты белдеуіне жататын аймақтар: Ресейдің Қиыр Шығысындағы моңғол-Охот, Сихоте-Алин және Сахалин облыстары
• Тақырып 15 Тынық мұхиты мен Арктика белдеулерінің экстремалды теңіздері

Key reading

• 1. Хаин В. Е., Лимонов А. Ф. Региональная геотектоника (тектоника континентов и океанов). — М. : ГЕРС, 2014. — 270 с. 2. Гордиенко И.В. История развития Земли. – Новосибирск: Гео, 2014, 293, с 3. Черных Н.В. Региональная геология , Оренбург гос. Университет, 2018 г. 4. Бискэ, Ю. С. Геология России: учебное пособие / Ю. С. Бискэ. - СПб : Изд-во С.- Петерб. ун-та, 2019. - 228 5. Добрецов Н.Л. Основы тектоники и геодинамики. – Уч. пособие, Новосибирск: НГУ, 2015, 492 с. 6. Короновский, Н. В. Геология России и сопредельных территорий: учебник— Москва, ИНФРА-М, 2021. — 230