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Course Name	Turkish	Tektonik
	English	Tectonics
Course Code	JEO 411E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	-	2	-	1
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Cengiz Zabcı
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Course Description		Tectonics is the science about the composition, structure, origin, and evolution of the Earth, its crust, or large regions of the Earth. Last decades it encompasses similar studies of material objects in the Universe. Tectonics integrates results of almost all geosciences. The first part of the course consists of lectures giving a systematic overview of continental rifts, oceanic spreading centers, transform faults, subduction zones and collisional orogenic belts. The second part of the course concentrates on the tectonic evolution of region originated in different tectonic settings. This course provides training in the concepts and techniques required for regional tectonic analysis and synthesis of the geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere.
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