Week 1: Earth’s interior constitution and concept of lithospheric plate. Composition, heat flow, pressure and gravity variation in earth
Week 2: Oceanic and continental types of Earth’s crust, their composition, mineralogy and major structural features
Week 3: Types of plates, type of plate margins, Euler’s pole, sense of displacements of plates
Week 4: Creative Plate Margin: Composition, seismic structure, magmatic activities, gravity variation, isostatic balance and evolution
Week 5: Conservative Plate Margin: Transform and transcurrent faults and plate motions, seismicity, structure and evolution. Different structure associated with transpression and transtension environments
Week 6: Destructive Plate Margins: Surface manifestations, geophysical and geological characteristics, sedimentological, metamorphic and magmatic characteristics, isostatic balance, gravity variation, thermal structure
Week 7: Orogenesis: Plate tectonics and mountain building processes, orogeny and epiorogeny, Fault plane solution
Week 8: Concept of plate tectonics in mineralization and hydrocarbon exploration: Types of plate setting and basin formation, mineralization in different plate settings
Week 9: Magmatism and metamorphism in plate tectonics: Different types of plate setting and igneous activities, Volcanoes and their products, metamorphism and its products in different plate boundaries
Week 10: Indian Plate: Configuration and characters of Indian plate margins; Himalayan orogeny and tectonic models; Indian seismicity
Week 11: Neotectonism: Identification of paleo and neotectonic features. Surficial expression of neotectonism and its effect on geomorphology
Week 12: Active fault mapping
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