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The students will be trained to:</span> | The students will be trained to:</span> | ||
| - | (i) identify the (beautiful) mineral parageneses representative of each metamorphic grade and each lithology;< | + | (i) identify the (beautiful) mineral parageneses representative of each metamorphic grade and each lithology;<br> |
(ii) draw panoramas and understand the stacking of tectonic nappes in the internal zones of the Alps;</span> | (ii) draw panoramas and understand the stacking of tectonic nappes in the internal zones of the Alps;</span> | ||
(iii) reconstruct a chronology of events that affected the belt from the early Mesozoic up the mid-Cenozoic times. | (iii) reconstruct a chronology of events that affected the belt from the early Mesozoic up the mid-Cenozoic times. | ||
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The aim of this course (offered to Master students of IPGP) is to understand deep deformation processes in the heart of a mountain belt across space and time scales. The Western Alps corresponds to a former subduction zone which has been exhumed during Alpine orogeny. The goal of this 5-day trip is to identify the various tectonic events and their petrological/mineralogical records studying metamorphic rocks ranging from greenschist to eclogite-facies conditions, in the Aosta valley (NW Italy).
The students will be trained to:</span>
(i) identify the (beautiful) mineral parageneses representative of each metamorphic grade and each lithology;
(ii) draw panoramas and understand the stacking of tectonic nappes in the internal zones of the Alps;</span>
(iii) reconstruct a chronology of events that affected the belt from the early Mesozoic up the mid-Cenozoic times.
Highly motivated students with good geological background (and basic knowledge in petrology) are welcome.
Additonal information:</span> Get ready for hiking: there will be several day excursions requiring good physical conditions (~500 m denivelate).</span> Please send a motivation letter and a short CV to angiboust@ipgp.fr if you want to participate. Candidatures will be carefully evaluated.</span> Cost (for non-IPGP or non-ENS students) will be around 600 euros (all included from Paris and back).
