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Course Name	Turkish	Deniz Jeolojisi
	English	Marine Geology
Course Code	JEO 444E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	2	2	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gülsen Uçarkuş
Course Objectives		The aims of the course are: -To explain the historical, environmental, social and economic implications of marine geological investigations. -To give a broad outline of the origin, structure and evolution of ocean basins and their margins -To equip students with an understanding of the principal marine geological processes, and their signature in seafloor data
Course Description		List of topics: -History of marine geology -Seafloor exploration techniques -Ocean margins and basins -Tectonic and sedimentary processes -Principal geological features, processes, and geohazards) -Near shore (submerged landscapes, continental shelf dynamics, sea level changes) -Continental slope (submarine canyons, submarine landslides, turbiditic processes). -Continental rise and abyssal plain (submarine channels and fans, hydrothermal vents, seamounts and submarine volcanoes) -Applied marine geology
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