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Course Name	Turkish	Aktif Tektonik
	English	Active Tectonics
Course Code	JDM 551E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Hüsnü Serdar Akyüz
Course Objectives		1- Description of “active tectonics”, its importance on human life and economy 2- Kinematic and dynamic analysis of Recent tectonic movements 3- The effect of Recent tectonic movements to landforms 4- Earthquake risk analysis Recent tectonic movements
Course Description		Fault types and their morphological and mechanical properties. Stress theory and its application to faulting. Morphological features of the landscape and its significance in terms of the active tectonics. Earthquake seismology. Mapping and interpretations of earthquake ruptures. Trench studies and its results. Dating methods of the faulting events. Modelling of faults and earthquakes.
Course Outcomes		1- What are the effects of active tectonics to human life, nature and economy 2- Deformation styles formed with Recent movements and their analysis 3- How form landforms with Recent tectonic movements 4- Investigation of necessary parameters in earthquake risk and their analysis
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