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Course Name	Turkish	Glacial Geology
	English	Glacial Geology
Course Code	JDM 628E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mehmet Akif Sarıkaya
Course Objectives		Glacial geology class provides a comprehensive summary of glaciations and geomorphology. This class will appeal to students who interested in the landforms and sediments that make up glacial landscapes. The aim of the class is to outline glacial landforms and sediments and to provide the students with the tools required to interpret glacial landscapes. It describes how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape. Chapters include glaciations around the world, demonstrating the range of glacial environments present on Earth today and palaeoglaciology explaining how glacial landforms and sediments are used in ice-sheet reconstructions.
Course Description		Glacial geology class provides a comprehensive summary of glaciations and geomorphology. This class will appeal to students who interested in the landforms and sediments that make up glacial landscapes. The aim of the class is to outline glacial landforms and sediments and to provide the students with the tools required to interpret glacial landscapes. It describes how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape. Chapters include glaciations around the world, demonstrating the range of glacial environments present on Earth today and palaeoglaciology explaining how glacial landforms and sediments are used in ice-sheet reconstructions.
Course Outcomes		Students who take this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects What is a glacier? Ice sheets? Types of glaciers? Distribution of glaciers around the world What is mass balance of a glacier? How glaciers move? Processes of glacial erosion, and erosional features of glaciers How do glaciers form? what are their relationship between the climate change; Process of glacial deposition and related landforms; What is paleoglaciations? Methods to understand ice ages? Dating of glacial deposits. Time of retreat and advance of glaciations around the globe
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		Bennett, M.R., Glasser, N.F., 2009. Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 400 pp. Required!
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