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20411005-2 GEOLOGY INTRODUCTION in Sciences for the protection of nature and environmental sustainability L-32 CIFELLI FRANCESCA, MATTEI MASSIMO
(syllabus)
The environment of celestial bodies; the Solar System; the shape and size of the Earth; the main motions of the Earth (rotation and revolution); the long-term movements of the Earth; the Earth-Moon system.
Orientation; time and its measure; the representation of the earth's surface; the geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude), the reading of topographic maps.
The Earth as integrated system.
The materials of the Earth: the minerals, the lithogenetic processes, the lithogenetic cycle.
The evolution of the Earth and the concept of ‘deep time’ in geology.
(reference books)
Capire la Terra
J.P. Grotzinger, T-H Jordan
(Terza edizione italiana condotta sulla settima edizione americana)
Il Globo Terrestre e la sua evoluzione
E. L. Palmieri e M. Parotto
Sesta Edizione (2008)
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