Tunnelling methods (sequential excavation, NATM, TBMs). Influence of geological factors (rock and soil), design of ground support, and use of geotechnical instrumentation and numerical analyses for tunnelling projects. Case histories.
Erik Eberhardt
Recognition of hydrothermal minerals in magmatic hydrothermal deposits
Systematic mapping of igneous rocks, veins and mineralization in porphyry Cu-Au and related deposit types using the Anaconda mapping method.
Understanding of the metallogeny of magmatic hydrothermal deposits.
Thomas Bissig
Farhad Bouzari
Murray Allan
Craig Hart
This course is largely field based and includes 8-10 days of field visits and mapping. The focus is on porphyry style deposits.
Overview of the roles rock deformation and the development of geological structures play in the genesis of, and exploration for, ore deposits. Offered in alternate years (credits: 3)
Rationale for Course
The course focuses on topics of current interest related to the nature, causes and processes of tectonism in a variety of plate tectonic settings, including convergent margins, strike-slip margins and regions undergoing crustal extension.
Smit, M.A.
The course will comprise two 1½ hour seminars per week. Each student will prepare an NSERC-style research proposal and present/defend it orally at the end of the term.
The course consists of seminars and an independent research project supplemented by access to the senior undergraduate volcanology lectures and field trips. The course exposes graduate students to the cutting edge questions in volcanology, provides an overview of scientific approaches used in volcanology, and allows the students to participate in that science via the class seminar
Develop an appreciation for interactions between flow processes, solute and gas transport, and geochemical reactions – in saturated and unsaturated porous media
Introduction to groundwater modeling freeware available on the web for geochemical modeling, modeling of flow and transport in the vadose zone, and reactive transport modeling
Ulrich Mayer
Roger Beckie, Ulrich Mayer
Maya Kopylova, co-ordinator,
Barbara Scott Smith