Instructor:   Allan Krill (krill@ntnu.no)   mobil telephone: 91897197 or office phone 73594803, which transfers to the same mobil telephone if not answered.  Please contact me promptly with any questions or problems.
Language: English.  The lectures and field trips are in English if requested by any student.  If all students are Norwegian, the lectures and and field trips are in Norwegian.  In any case, most of the reading is in English.
Goals for the course.  Study the bedrock geology of Norway, and western Europe.  Learn how to find and use relevant geological maps and literature.  Understand that geological maps and interpretations are imperfect models, and can always be improved.  Study detailed features of typical examples of mountain-building and  -collapse (Caledonides), and continental rifting (Oslo).
Prerequisites:  Introductory geology (Geologi innføring), or equivalent.  If you have only this minimal geology background, you must review your Intro-geology textbook during the first two weeks (chapters on minerals, igneous & metamorphic & sedimentary rocks, deformation structures, geological time and the time scale.)
Lab/project work: (øvinger)  Mostly field trips and work related to geological maps.
Literature research and presentation of an area of Norwegian geology.
First Lecture and Class Meeting is Thursday August 24  8.15-10. Room B3, Berg building.  Lectures are scheduled for Thursdays at this time all semester.  If you have a time conflict, contact me immediately.  (It may be possible to reschedule the lecture time.)  If you plan to take this course but are not able to come to the first lecture, you should contact me in advance.
Labs/øvinger Fridays 8.15-10.00 room B25 when arranged. Many of the labs/øvinger can be done individually without instruction, at any time during the week.

Field trips:  The field trips are very important.  If you have a time conflict, contact me immediately.  (It may be possible to reschedule.)
Oslo region (Oslo city)  3 days (Friday mid-day 8.Sept. - Sunday 10.sept.)  Reserve these dates!
Dovrefjell-Trollheimen (Oppdal)  2 days (Sunday 24.sept - Monday 25.Sept.)  Reserve these dates!

Grades:   50% of the grade will be based on 3 quizzes and one report.
Quiz 1: Sept.8. 8.15-9 room B25 (10%). 
Quiz 2: October 20 8.15-9 room B25 (10%). 
Quiz 3: November 25 (10%). 
Report due in November (20%)
Final oral exam (50%) will be held Saturday December 9
0900-0930 Idunn
0930-1000 Wenche
1000-1030 Linn
1030-1100 Rolf
1115-1145 Lena
1145-1215 Svein
1215-1245 Vegard
1330-1400 Jon
1400-1430 Marianne
1430-1500 Jenny
1515-1545 Tiegen
1545-1615 Juan
1615-1645 Manuell

Previous exams (mulitple-choice ) in this course: 1997, 1998

Geological map of Norway, 1:1 Million

Geological map of Oslo (1:50 000 map sheet Asker berggrunnsgeologisk kart NGU)

Roberts and Gee. Introduction to the structure of the Scandianvian Caledonides (Abstract and map only)

Dons, J.A. 1996:  Oslo-traktenes geologi med 25 turbeskrivelser, 207 s + kart.  Vett og Viten A/S,  Nesbru (only few pages given out during Oslo excursion)

Ramberg, I.B. & Spjeldnæs, N. 1978:  The tectonic history of the Oslo region.

Rohr-Torp. Permian rocks and faulting ...

Krill, A.G. 1985: Eidsvoll quarry...

Steel, R. Siedlecka, A, & Roberts, D. 1985:  The Old Red Sandstone basins of Norway and their (only the abstract and figures from this article).

Norton, M.G. 1987:  The Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment, W. Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 67, 93-106.

Autran, A:   Introduction to the geology of western and southern Europe,

Auboin, J. 1980. Geology of Europe: a stynthesis. Episodes Vol 1980, No.1, (Single page map only)

Syllabus/Pensum and Lecture Schedule  for the 14 weeks of the semester.  (Some details may be changed.)
See the Regional Geology Study Guide for 2006 to keep updated on lecture notes and assignments.

Week 1:
Geological map of Norway, 1:1 Million
Review Introductory geology: igneous rocks, geological time scale,
See Study Guide
Lab.1: Make a small scetch-cross section for an area on the map. Choose a rock on the map and find how the rock is mapped / what it is called on the Online 1:250 000 map series

Weeks 2 & 3:
Geology of the Oslo city area
Quiz 1 (10%) and Oslo field trip
Asker 1:50 000 map, Berggrunnsgeologisk kart over Norge 1:50 000 map sheet Asker NGU
Dons, J.A. 1996:  Oslo-traktenes geologi med 25 turbeskrivelser, 207 s + kart.  Vett og Viten A/S,  Nesbru (Introduction pages 1-74.)

Week 4
Historical discussion of thrust interpretation in central Scandinavina Caledonides
Gee 1976
Hans Ramberg 1978

Week 5
Tectonostratigraphic interpretations of entire Scandinavina Caledonides.
Quiz 2 (10%)
Field trip to Oppdal
Roberts& Gee. Introduction to the structure of the Scandianvian Caledonides. (Only the abstract and the figures are important here.)

Week 6
Western Gneiss Region of Central Norway
Krill Eidsvoll quarry model

Week 7
Devonian of Western Norway and outer Trøndelag
Bryhni? Siedlecka?
?Steel, R. Siedlecka, A, & Roberts, D. 1985:  The Old Red Sandstone basins of Norway and their
   deformation.: a review  In Sturt, B.A. & Gee, D.G. (Eds.)  The Caledonide Orogen -
   Scandinavia and related areas.  J. Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1266pp. (only the abstract and figures from this article).

Week 8
Devonian uplift and collapse of central Norway
One day field trip to Røragen/Feragen (Røros).
Norton, M.G. 1987:  The Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment, W. Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 67, 93-106.
Holmsen 1962 on Røragen
Field trip to Røragen/Feragen (Røros) Sundag 15 October 7.15-1930

Week 9
Example of a geological thesis
Rohr-Torp Permian rocks and faulting ... (This paper clearly shows the scientific and practical approach to a traditional geologic thesis.)
Quiz Friday 22 October 8.15-900 Quiz will cover the Oppdal excursion and geological map of Norway, as well as the following reading from our pensum:
Roberts & Gee 1985 - Structure of the Scandinavian Caledonides (week 5)
Krill - Eidsvoll quarry model (week 6)
Steel et al. 1985 - Old Red Sandstone (week 7)
Norton 1987 - Nordfjord Sogn Detachment (week 7)

Week 10
Models for tectonics and magmatism of the Oslo region
One day field trip to Vestranden (Lensvik) - Ørlandet (Brekstad)
Quiz 3 (10%)
Ramberg, I.B. & Spjeldnæs, N. 1978:  The tectonic history of the Oslo region.  s. 167-194.   In:  Ramberg, I.B. & Neumann, E.-R. (eds.) Tectonics and Geophysics of Continental rifts.  D.Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland. (Only the figures describing rift magmatism are necessary to read and understand.)

Week 11
Geology of Western Europe
Autran, A:  Introduction to the geology of western and southern Europe, in Lumsden, G. I (editor) Geology and the environment of western Europe Clarendon Press. This paper gives a brief summary of introductory geology and the bedrock geology of Europe. You don't have to memorize it, but should check things that you don't understand.

Week 12
Resistance to new interpretations: Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift (1929), and Paul Hoffman's Snowball Earth (1999)
Reusch, H. 1891.  Skuringsmærker og morænegrus eftervist i Finmarken fra en periode meget ældre end "istiden", Norges geologiske undersøgelses aarbog for 1891, s.78-86 (historical interest)
Hoffman, P.F, & Schrag, D.P. 1999,  The Snowball Earth (understand the basic geological arguments here, but not the chemical details)

Weeks 13 & 14
Presentations by students: Precambrian geology in Finnmark (20%)

Projects
Become familiar with access to geologic maps available on the internet.  (NGU Maps)   Use the mouse to draw a rectangle around the area you wish to see in more detail.
See also the index in the back of the Scandianvian Caledonian "blue bible" of 1985, and the NGU index of 1974.
And NGU's online databases ("geologiske tjenester").

Report
Choose a map area of Precambrian rocks, preferably from Finnmark
1.  Write a proposal, one page or less (200 words and a map or diagram), explaining why this area might be of special interest to the students of this course.  Turn this proposal in before class on arranged date. Acceptance of this proposal will allow you to continue on this project.
2.  Find the earliest (1940 or preferably much earlier) map and description of this area, and the most recent map and description.  Make a reference list, including these three sources and any other articles or maps that you may have found.  Turn this in at least by arranged date.
3.  Write a short report, showing 3 maps and telling about the differences (improvements) in the knowledge of this area.
4.  Present your results to the class (about 10 minutes).