Course overview
This course aims to develop advanced practical and theoretical skills to allow geochemical, isotopic and petrological investigations of igneous and metamorphic rock formation.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate proficiency in common practical skills in igneous and metamorphic geology
- Understand how the occurrence and character of different igneous and metamorphic rock suites is governed by and reflects the Earth's tectonic processes
- Explain how magma is generated in the Earth's mantle and how magma typically evolves
- Be able to organise, plot and evaluate the petrogenesis of igneous rock suites using elemental data
- Understand different geochronological and isotope geochemical techniques and their applications to igneous and metamorphic processes
- Explain how absolute pressure-temperature information is extracted from rock using thermodynamic expressions