Code: BIOL-407
Semester: G
Course Type: Elective
ECTS units: 5
Instructor
Charalampos Fassoulas
Description
Objectives of the course (preferably expressed in terms of learning outcomes and competences): Introduction to earth processes like volcanism, plate tectonics, weathering etc. and their contribution to the development of landscape and certain landforms. Analysis of individual landforms and relief changes through time. Study and practices on geological, geomorphological and paleogeographic maps.
Course contents: Introduction to earth interior, plate tectonics, plate movements and formation of mega-landscape. Internal and external physical processes: Volcanism, Tectonism, weathering, erosion processes and their impact on the earth surface. Introduction to surface and ground water circulation. Landscape evolution, landscape stages.
