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Course Name	Turkish	Petrography
	English	Petrography
Course Code	JEO 331E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	-	2	-	1
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Şenel Özdamar
Course Objectives		The aim of the course; to understand origin and evaluation of the different kind of rocks and their physical, chemicaland petrographical features. The main goal of this course is identify and classification of different kind of rocks (mainly magmatic and metamorphic rocks) by using their mineralogical and petrographical properties. Simple tests and practice on the hand sample together with the polarisan microscope studies are also very common method for identify the different rocks.
Course Description		Structure of the earth crust, magma, physical and chemical conditions of the magma, crystallization of magma, emplacement of magma, classification of the magmatic rocks using different methods, petrographic features of the different rock suites, metamorphism, mode of occurence, metamorphic conditions, kinds of the metamorphism, paragenesis and facies,metamorphic textures, kinds of the metamorphic rocks .
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