Environmental Geology

Code:

EA0008

Acronym:

GA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Design, Development, Implementation and Operation
OFICIAL	Basic Sciences
OFICIAL	Interp/Personal professional attitudes and capac.

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEA	54	Syllabus since 2006/07	1	-	5,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course aims to familiarize the students with the main Geology concepts and to think about the Earth’s anthropogenic actions as influent and easily influenced by the various dynamics which form it.

Program

Theoretical:
Concept of a territory’s vulnerability
Earth’s History
Earth’s Structure
Internal Geodynamics
Plate tectonics theory
The rocks
External Geodynamics
Rocks’ cycle
Water cycle
Cycles on earth
Morphology and dynamics of:
Soils
Slopes
Fluvial
Coast

Practical:
Talus analysis using stereography
Minerals and Rocks identification
Fluvial and coastal analysis in laboratory
Field classes

Mandatory literature

Press, Frank; Understanding earth. ISBN: 0-7167-2836-2

Complementary Bibliography

Merritts, Dorothy J.; Environmental geology. ISBN: 0-7167-2834-6
Montgomery, Carla W.; Environmental geology. ISBN: 0-07--115392-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes (including Field and Laboratory classes)

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

75% attainment in practical classes

Calculation formula of final grade

Field classes report 10%
Monograph 25%
Tests 65%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Follows the General Evaluation Rules.

Classification improvement

Follows the General Evaluation Rules.