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• Concept of geosyncline and sedimentary basins
• Sea floor spreading, oceanic ridges and trenches
• Continental rifts
• Intra-oceanic islands
• Hot spot and mantle plumes
• Continental drift and reconstruction
• Concept of plate tectonics
• Historical perspective
• Mechanism of plate tectonics
• Plates and plate boundaries
• Relative and absolute plate motions
• Extensional, compressional and transpressional tectonics
• 13. Subduction zones
• Transform and transcurrent faults
• Introduction to neo-tectonics and related hazards
• Application of geotectonic in natural resource explorations