Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

GEOSCIENCES LABORATORY

General Data

Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 4.00
Status: Mandatory
Type: Course
Academic Year: 1º
Term: 2º
Languages: Portuguese
Available for Mobility Students: No
Restricted to alliance: No
Code: Sin codigo

Coordination

Description

Laboratory
3

Instructors

Maria José Afonso


 

Contents

TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL MAPS: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
Scales and distances, instruments, georeferencing systems, coordinates, magnetic declination, legends, symbols
GEOLOGICAL CROSS-SECTIONS
Geological backgrounds with igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks; Three-point problem: Applications to applied geology, geotechnics, and hydrogeology
PRINCIPLES OF STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION
Applications to structural geology and geotechnics; Elementary principles of stereographic projection; Schmidt-Lambert equal-area stereographic net; Geometric use of stereographic projection
FIELD TRIPS


 

Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to: understand the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in Geosciences, the topographic and cartographic analysis in Geosciences, the main methods and graphical techniques in structural geology and their applications in rock masses geotechnics; show a geoscientific culture; integrate the basic concepts of geology for the geological mapping analysis; study and analyse practical case studies for the application of geo-structural methodologies and graphical techniques; write reports using computer tools; collect, select and interpret relevant information for this course.
Understand the position of geosciences in the pluridisciplinary scientific broad field of Geoengineering.
Analysis and interpretation of topographical and geological maps.