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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS DJJ 5027 MARINE GEOLOGY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOĞAN YAŞAR

Offered to

MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS

Course Objective

To give a overview of earth's development and to emphasize the role of basic scientific principles in creating processes that govern the oceans.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   historical perspective to understand the importance of oceanography and marine works 2   understanding of the causes and consequences of the historical process and paleoceanographic changes 3   understanding of plate tectonics and oceanography relations 4   understanding of marine geology in terms of global warming and cooling 5   understanding of oceanography in terms of global warming and cooling

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 INTRODUCTION History of Marine Geology 2 MARINE STRATIGRAPHY Biostratigraphy, Lithostratigraphy, Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy, Tephrastratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy 3 PLATE TECTONICS. Continental Drift and Sea-Floor Spreading, Continental Margin Types, Volcanism and Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes 4 OCEAN CIRCULATION Classification of Marine Environments, The Oceanic Conveyor Belt (Surface and Deep Circulation) 5 CLIMATE Climates and plate tectonics, Climates and world s rotation 6 CLIMATE El Nino, El Nina events, Climate and Volcanism, Sunspots 7 MID-TERM EXAM 8 SEA LEVEL CHANGE Sea Level Change and Coastal Zone Terrigeneous Deep-sea sediments,. Biogenic and Authigenic ocean sediments 9 OCEANIC SEDIMENTS Terrigeneous Deep-sea sediments,. Biogenic and Authigenic ocean sediments 10 MICROFOSSILS Calcareous Microfossils, Siliceous Microfossils. 11 APPROACHES TO PALEOCEANOGRAPHY Primary tools of Oceanography, Paleoceanographic changes 12 PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE OCEAN BASINS Pasific Ocean, North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Blacksea 13 GLOBAL PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION Paleozoic Paleoceanography, Mesozoic Paleoceanography, Cenozoic Paleoceanography 14 FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Marine Geology. Prentice-Hall, Inc.James Kenneth, 1982. C.W.Montgomery. Environmental Geology. Wm.C.Brown Publishers 1992. : Alyn C.Duxbury and Alison B.Duxbury. Paleocenography. Harvard College, Thomas J.M.Schopf, 1980.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Teaching in class

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 FIN FINAL EXAM 3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50 4 RST RESIT 5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

nothing

Assessment Criteria

evaluation of exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Doğan Yaşar dogan.yasar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will be determined depending on the shedule

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 14 2 28 Preparing presentations 1 20 20 Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20 Reading 5 10 50 Preparation for final exam 1 20 20 Preparing assignments 1 30 30 Midterm 2 2 4 Final 1 3 3 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 LO.1 4 1 2 2 1 5 5 4 4 5 1 4 5 LO.2 4 1 2 2 1 5 5 4 4 5 1 4 5 LO.3 4 1 2 2 1 5 5 4 4 5 1 4 5 LO.4 4 1 2 2 1 5 5 4 4 5 1 4 5 LO.5 4 1 2 2 1 5 5 4 4 5 1 4 5