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Course Name	Turkish	Magmatik Kayalar petrografisi
	English	Petrog. of Magmatic Rocks
Course Code	JEO 204E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	4	2	1	-	2
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mehmet Keskin
Course Objectives		Igneous (magmatic) rocks comprise almost the whole of the Earth's crust and mantle, while metamorphic rocks make up most of the continental crust. In addition, metasomatism is an important process in the evolution of the lithospheric mantle. Hence, magmatic and metamorphic rocks are of great importance to earth scientists. The aim of this course is to teach second-year students the classification, occurrence, composition, origin, and evolution of rocks formed from magmatic processes from mantle depths to the Earth’s surface. The course specifically focuses on describing and classifying magmatic rocks and their origin and distribution in the mantle, lithosphere, and Earth’s surface.
Course Description		For earth scientists and specifically for Geological Engineers, a basic knowledge of petrography of the magmatic (igneous) rocks is of crucial importance because it can provide them with vital information about nomenclature and classification of various magmatic rocks, basic terminology, and several other important issues e.g., understanding the origin of minerals and rocks, tectonic setting in which they occur and their geological evolution.
Course Outcomes		The rocks and their building blocks minerals are the basic materials making up the Earth's crust and mantle from the surface down to the core-mantle boundary at ~2900 km. So, they form and exist under very diverse conditions and may contain important information about these conditions. Basic petrographic knowledge of the igneous rocks is necessary for earth scientists and specifically for geological engineers because only it can provide them with vital information about nomenclature and rock classification, basic terminology, and a number of other important issues e.g., understanding their origin, tectonic setting in which they occur and their geological evolution. Hence, petrographic knowledge and terminology that will be covered in this course are used in every discipline of earth sciences.
Pre-requisite(s)		JEO 242 MIN DD or JEO 242E MIN DD
Required Facilities		Petrography laboratory, polarized microscopes, thin sections.
Other
Textbook		Winter, J.D. (2014). Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Second Edition, Pearson Education Limited, 737 P. ISBN 10: 1-292-02153-5. Le Maitre, R.W. (2002). Igneous Rocks: A Classification and Glossary Terms, 2nd Edition, Cambridge Univ. Press, 236 p. MacKenzie, W.S., Donaldson, C.H. and Guilford, C. (1982). Atlas of Igneous Rocks and Their Textures, Longman Scientific & Technical. ISBN 0 582 02641 5.
Other References		Frost, B.R. and Frost, C.D. (2014). Essentials of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Cambridge University Press, 303 P. ISBN: 978-1-107-02754-1. Hirose, K. (2010). The Earth’s missing ingredient, Scientific American, pp. 76-83. June 2010. Gautam, S. (2014). Petrology: Principles and Practice, Springer, 368 P. ISBN 978-3-642-38800-2. Philpotts, A.R. (2003). Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, 179 P. ISBN 0 13 662313 1.

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