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Provides a broad understanding of the ocean basins, their structure and evolution with particular emphasis on Australian rifted continental margins, the Southern Ocean and the SW Pacific region. Marine geosciences is an integration of the disciplines of geology, geophysics and geochemistry and this particular course in marine geoscience will include the following topics: morphotectonic elements of the ocean floors; plate tectonics, geochemistry; igneous, sedimentary and ore-forming processes; paleoceanography and climate change; coastal geology, and tools and methods used in marine geoscience.
Comprises a series of lectures and practicals . Lectures cover aspects of tectonics, igneous petrology, sedimentology, structure, volcanology, geochemsitry and resources of the oceans. Laboratory work includes hand sample and microscope investigations of marine rocks, sediments and mineral resources.
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