Component
Faculty of Science
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Fluid resources reservoirs
4 creditsHydrology
4 creditsProject in TEE 2
2 creditsEU Field placement
8 creditsHydraulics
4 creditsGeomorphology
4 creditsGeodynamics
4 credits
Fluid resources reservoirs
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course aims at integrating the knowledge (geological and in terms of analysis tools) acquired until the 5th semester of the licence and to apply them to the discovery of the architecture of the subsoil and the dynamics of the fluids it contains. It is articulated around five axes:
Introduction of near-surface reconnaissance and characterization techniques applied to reservoirs (surface and well geophysics, hydrogeological measurements, sediment core studies);
- Application to a concrete case study: an aquifer in the Languedoc coastal zone;
- Acquisition of part of the data on an experimental site thanks to dedicated measurement workshops (field);
- Processing, analysis and interpretation of data acquired with dedicated software but also of complementary data from laboratory measurements;
- Synthesis and report/poster writing.
Hourly volumes:
CM : 6h
TD : 6h
TP : 18h
Field : 12h
Hydrology
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This UE will be articulated around the following concepts:
1) The watershed (definition, geometric, geological, physiographic characteristics, hydrological behavior)
2) Precipitation (Definition of precipitation, concept of showers and intensity, spatial analysis of point measurement (Thiessen, isohets), temporal analysis of point measurement (return period, Montana)
3) Evapotranspiration (interception, evaporation, transpiration, evapotranspiration, Turc's formulas, Thornthwaite)
4) Infiltration (definition of infiltration capacity, characteristics of the unsaturated zone, concepts of water content, hydraulic conductivity at saturation, water potential, balance of forces and state of water in the soil, factors influencing infiltration and water profiles, Horton's law)
5) Runoff (formation of surface runoff, runoff coefficient, subsurface runoff, table-river relationship, decomposition of flood hydrographs)
6) The water balance (the water cycle and the water balance at different spatial and temporal scales)
7) Hydrometry (principle and technique of measurement + field)
Hourly volumes:
CM :12h
TD :12h
TP : 6h
Field :6h
Project in TEE 2
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This UE consists in carrying out a project on a theme of the Earth, Water and Environmental Sciences. The themes will be defined by the L3 pedagogical team and will consist in dealing with scientific problems using data acquired in the laboratory and/or in the field. The subjects will be treated by groups of 2 to 3 students and will be supervised by tutors, throughout the year of L3 within the framework of 2 complementary UE :
- The TEE 1 project in S5 will focus on bibliographic research activities related to the subject and the acquisition of tools to write a scientific report and make an oral presentation.
- the TEE 2 project in S6 will be more devoted to the processing of experimental/analytical data, the criticism of the results obtained and their interpretation. The final restitution of the study will be done in the form of a final report and an oral presentation before a jury.
This project unit, which is spread over the two semesters of the L3 TEE, will allow students to experience an initial independent work situation, which they will then be able to transpose into their master's program, or directly into the professional world, depending on their professional project.
EU Field placement
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
8 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This EU is primarily a training course for geological mapping in the field, built in two parts:
1 - A pre-learning in 2 days of fieldwork in the northern Montpellier region. Introduction to field mapping methods (measurement, transfer) and to the survey of structural and sedimentary sections in the St Martin de Londres basin. The students are followed in the field in small groups of 10, using project-based pedagogy (complementary work) and group pedagogy in the field (dialogue, interaction) guided by a teacher who guides them in questioning, locating and reporting cartographic data.
2 - A deepening of the learning process through an immersion in a long field course of 8 days in the Alps (Digne region). With the help of project-based and inverted pedagogy (autonomous work alternated with supervised days, i.e. rotation of small groups), students learn to map in a high relief region where rocks are very deformed, and field observation and spatial data are very complementary. The total immersion of the fieldwork allows for supervised work and monitoring of the student's daily work.
Hourly volumes:
CM : 2 h (introduction of basic notions)
TD : 10 h (3h of GIS, 7h of image analysis, and construction of sections)
Field : 60 h (12h in St Martin, 48h in Digne)
Hydraulics
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
- Hydrostatics (Fundamental Principle of Hydrostatics, notion of buoyancy force, Archimedes' theorem)
- Fluid kinematics (streamline, trajectory, emission line, flow rate, Reynolds number, laminar, turbulent flow)
- Hydrodynamics of perfect fluids (conservation of mass, conservation of energy with Bernouilli's theorem, case study: Mariotte vessel, emptying of a tank, Pitot tube, Venturi)
- Hydrodynamics of real fluids (origin of pressure losses and estimation of linear and singular pressure losses, generalized Bernouilli's theorem with pressure losses)
- Hydraulic machines (pump operation, H(Q) characteristics, operating point)
- Free surface hydraulics (hydraulic characteristics, Manning Strickler formula, weir formula, rating curves)
Hourly volumes:
CM :10h
TD :10h
TP : 16 hours
Geomorphology
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
We will study the main external and internal processes that participate in the shaping of landforms:
- Alteration process
- Wind Processes and Landscapes
- River processes and river landscapes
- Glacial and periglacial processes and landscapes
- Tectonic and structural geomorphology
- Slope process
- Karst Model
Hourly volume:
CM : 21h
Practical work : 9h x 2 groups
Field : 6h x 3 groups
Geodynamics
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The Geodynamics EU articulates the presentation, study and characterization of the major processes associated with solid Earth geodynamics: mantle dynamics, plate tectonics, plate boundaries (rifts, subductions, collisions, ocean expansion) and intraplate domains. These systems and processes are studied through natural examples at the crustal and lithospheric scales, with emphasis on the integration of different data and tools used in the Earth sciences (geophysics, geochemistry, structural geology, rock mechanics, petrology, etc.) NB: the hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere are not covered.
The courses are associated with practical sessions focused on the analysis and synthesis of documents in order to characterize geodynamic processes, using the concepts covered in geosciences since S1.
Hourly volumes:
CM : 3 pm
TD : 21 h