Key facts
UNE unit code: GEOL314
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- Trimester 2 - On Campus
- Trimester 2 - Online
- Armidale Campus
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- 6
Unit information
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Demonstrate mastery of the field techniques that are invaluable for diverse roles in earth science, with this hands-on, practical unit. Our aim in this unit is to provide you with field experience and fine tune the applied skills needed to ensure your competence as a graduate geologist.
Completed primarily in the field, this unit helps to extend your capacity to apply techniques relevant to sedimentological, stratigraphic, structural and metamorphic mapping, building on the skills and knowledge acquired in your foundation geology units.
Over the 10 days of fieldwork, you will complete a variety of geological mapping exercises, with different methods and scales of mapping assessed. With opportunities to use modern analytical equipment, you will learn both traditional and cutting-edge methods for mapping.
Throughout the intensive, you will also work on smaller focused modules, such as cross-sections, geological histories, geological reports and 3D block diagrams.
Offerings
For further information about UNE's teaching periods, please go to Principal Dates.
Teaching period | Mode/location |
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Trimester 2 | On Campus, Armidale Campus |
Trimester 2 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
Intensive schools
Start | Finish | Duration | Attendance | Offerings | Notes |
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TBA | TBA | 10 days | Mandatory Intensive School | All offerings | Dates to be advised. The Intensive School is mandatory for both online and on campus students. This Intensive School contains a field trip. Therefore teaching activities will occur on Sunday. The off-campus intensive school may incur additional expenses up to $400. In addition, students will be responsible for travel to and from the intensive school as well as all meals. The ability to enrol in this unit will be removed approximately three days prior to the commencement of this mandatory intensive school. |
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Notes
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- collect data from natural exposures that can be used to understand and query physical, chemical and biological processes that occur over geological time;
- apply basic mapping techniques, such as form surface and structural mapping, to complexly deformed rocks;
- demonstrate the ability to recognise a range of common rock-forming minerals, lithologies, structures, and textures, for a range of igneous and metamorphic rocks;
- develop a geological and tectonic history of a multiply deformed and metamorphosed area;
- effectively use current GIS applications to navigate in an unfamiliar setting and integrate relevant data from on-line sources to assist in the learning process;
- present accurate and engaging reports and oral presentations on a tight timetable that acknowledge assumptions and limitations in the methods used and data acquired;
- understand limitations of the acquired data and interpretations, and how they are relevant to the minerals industry and larger society; and
- most importantly, be able to actively and safely collaborative in multi-cultural teams to recognize and solve geological problems in the field.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
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Assessment 1 | Yes | 25% | All offerings | Pre-excursion assessment. Includes online and written tasks No. Words: Equiv. 2000 |
Assessment 2 | Yes | 55% | All offerings | Fieldwork assessment No. Words: Equiv. 3500 |
Assessment 3 | Yes | 20% | All offerings | Field exam. To be completed on the last day of the field excursion. No. Words: Equiv. 500 |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Geological Field Techniques
ISBN: 9781444330625
Coe, A.L. and others, Wiley-Blackwell 2010
Text refers to: All offerings
Note: Recommended material is held in the University Library — purchase is optional.
Principles of Metamorphic Petrology
ISBN: 9780521871785
Vernon, R. H. & Clarke, G. L. , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008
Text refers to: All offerings
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