Course Topic: Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism
The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
iMAGE-CREATE Ph.D. student Tatiana Sitnikova has been selected to participate in a short course on “Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism” at The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS).
While Tatiana is a Ph.D. student at the University of Ottawa (which is part of the NORRAM2 project), she received financial support and was provided with the flight tickets to Svalbard. More information on the short course can be found on the UNIS website. Congratulations and best of luck to Tatiana during her time in Svalbard!
Course Content:
This course addresses the diverse geological history of the Arctic region, including both onshore and offshore regions from Paleozoic to recent times. It will focus on the interplay of plate tectonics and volcanism (including, arc, rifting and plume-related) and explore some of the outstanding region-by-region case studies/questions within the Arctic research community. Based in the gateway to the Arctic, Svalbard, the course will be complemented by field excursions examining the well exposed outcrops and specifically the igneous rocks emplaced over large parts of the Svalbard archipelago.
Learning Outcomes:
The course will present the circum-Arctic region in a 4D perspective: the present-day structure of this region from surface to deep mantle and how it evolved since the Paleozoic. Students will get an overview of the large-scale kinematics and geodynamics of the Arctic region in space and time. They will learn how to combine onshore and offshore data to uncover the present-day tectonic structure of the region and use it, together with other knowledge, for plate tectonic reconstructions. The students will learn about causes and manifestation of volcanism in the circum-Arctic region. The course includes field trips to observe present day preservation of past Arctic magmatism.
