Faculty of Science

Objectives

The course is intended to provide and test students’ skills of independent research/geological mapping in the field.

Contents

Groups of students map an area which has been carefully selected after previous studies by the supervisor. The mapping exercise lasts for at least two weeks (14 days), during which the supervisor visits and stays for some days with the students to ensure the proper conduct of the exercise. The subsequent outcrop location and geological maps are produced in scales of 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 and a detailed description of the process including the rock types and related structures encountered in the field presented in a bound form for evaluation.