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Course Name	Turkish	Yapısal Jeoloji
	English	Structural Geology
Course Code	JEO 256E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	2	1	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Borıs Natalın
Course Objectives		1) Concepts of stress, strain, and deformation types; 2) Distinctions between brittle and ductile deformations and their products; 3) Recording observations and techniques of presentation/analysis of linear and planar structural data; 4) Determining deformation histories derived from rock structures.
Course Description		Structural geology is the branch of geology that deals with the identification, recording, and analysis of geological structures, chiefly on a moderate to small scale. It is concerned with deformation of rocks because of faulting and folding, as viewed from the atomic scale, through the grain scale, the hand sample scale, the mountain range scale, and the tectonic plate scale. It also deals with the behavior of rocks at different pressure and temperature conditions in accord with the time interval when deformation of rocks occur.
Course Outcomes		1. Determining deformation histories derived from microscopic and mesoscopic rock structures; 2. Methods of modern tectonic studies and their implications including the ability of creating a scientific hypothesis and its testing; 3. The ability to collect relevant data and extract information from relevant databases; 4. Comprehension of scientific books and papers dealing with natural sciences in general and structural geology particularly;
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Textbook		1) van der Pluijm, B. A. and Marshak, S., 2004. Earth structure: Introduction to structural geology and tectonics, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 656 p. 2) Marshak, S. and Mitra, G., 1988. Basic methods of structural geology, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 446p.
Other References		Fossen, H., 2010. Structural Geology, Cambridge University Press, 463p.

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