EU Choice HAT616T

This course unit aims to integrate the knowledge (geological and in terms of analytical tools) acquired up to the fifth semester of the bachelor's degree and apply it to the discovery of the architecture of the subsurface and the dynamics of the fluids it contains. It is structured around five areas: 

-Introduction to techniques for recognizing and characterizing the near surface 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 some of the data at an experimental site through dedicated measurement workshops (fieldwork);

- Processing, analysis, and interpretation of data acquired using dedicated software, as well as additional data from laboratory measurements;

- Summary and report/poster writing.

Hourly volumes:

CM: 6 hours

Tutorial: 6 hours

Practical work: 6 p.m.

Field: 12 p.m.

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This course unit consists of carrying out a project on a topic related to Earth, Water, and Environmental Sciences. The topics will be defined by the entire L3 teaching team and will involve addressing scientific issues using data acquired in the laboratory and/or in the field. The topics will be addressed by groups of 2 to 3 students and will be supervised by tutors throughout the L3 year as part of 2 complementary course units:

- Project TEE 1 in S5 will focus on bibliographic research activities related to the topic and the acquisition of tools for writing a scientific report and giving an oral presentation.

- The TEE 2 project in S6 will focus more on processing experimental/analytical data, critiquing the results obtained, and interpreting them. The final outcome of the study will take the form of a final report and an oral presentation before a jury.

This project-based course, spread over the two semesters of the third year of the TEE program, will provide students with their first experience of working independently. They will then be able to apply this experience to their master's program or directly to the professional world, depending on their career plans.

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This course is primarily a practical training course in geological mapping, divided into two parts:

1 - A two-day pre-apprenticeship in the field in the northern Montpellier region. Introduction to field mapping methods (measurement, reporting) and structural and sedimentary section surveying in the St Martin de Londres basin. Students are supervised in the field in small groups of 10, using project-based teaching (additional work) and group teaching in the field (dialogue, interaction) led by a teacher who guides them in questioning, locating, and transferring cartographic data.

2 - Deepening learning through an 8-day immersion field trip in the Alps (Digne region). Using project-based and flipped teaching methods (alternating independent work with supervised days, i.e., small group rotation), students learn to map a region with high relief where the rocks are highly deformed, and field observation and spatial data are highly complementary. Total immersion in fieldwork allows for supervised work and monitoring of the student's daily work.

Hourly volumes:

CM: 2 hours (introduction to basic concepts)

Tutorial: 10 hours (3 hours of GIS, 7 hours of image analysis and section construction)

Fieldwork: 60 hours (12 hours in St Martin, 48 hours in Digne)

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We will study the main external and internal processes that contribute to the shaping of landforms:

• Weathering process
• Wind processes and landscapes
• River processes and river landscapes
• Glacial and periglacial processes and landscapes
• Tectonic and structural geomorphology
• Slope process
• Karst landscape

Hours per week:

CM: 9 p.m.

Practical work: 9 hours x 2 groups

Field: 6 hours x 3 groups

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The Earth system is often described as a series of overlapping layers, starting from the central core and extending to the most remote areas at the edge of space. It can also be thought of as a system where rocks, water, air, and life coexist. The Earth system first forms a whole, whose components are largely interconnected at all scales of time and space.

The Earth-Environment module explores the connections between the main components of the Earth system: the solid earth, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere. Its aim is to describe and explain some of the most striking interactions and to show the extent to which these complex processes and interactions control our entire environment, including our daily lives, our safety (natural hazards and disasters), and the prospects for human survival on Earth.

Hours per week:

CM: 30  

TD: 30   

TP: 12

This represents 72 hours of classroom time. This equates to 48 teaching blocks of 1.5 hours (20 lecture blocks, 20 tutorial blocks, and 8 practical blocks).

The module is organized as a short introductory lecture followed by the following three thematic blocks, which follow one another in the module schedule:

1. Inner Earth
2. External soil and geological hazards
3. External Earth, hydrosphere, and risks

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The Geodynamics EU combines the presentation, study, and characterization of the major processes associated with the geodynamics of the solid Earth: mantle dynamics, plate tectonics, plate boundaries (breakaways, subductions, collisions, oceanic expansion), and intraplate domains. These systems and processes are studied through natural examples at the scale of the crust and lithosphere, with an emphasis on integrating the various data and tools used in Earth sciences (geophysics, geochemistry, structural geology, rock mechanics, petrology, etc.). NB: the hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere are not covered.

The lectures are combined with tutorials focused on analyzing and summarizing documents in order to characterize geodynamic processes, drawing on concepts covered in geosciences since the first semester.

Hourly volumes:

CM: 3 p.m.

TD: 9 p.m.

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