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| HRT2021 | Plate Tectonics | 2+0+0 | ECTS:2 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOMATICS ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Yener EYÜBOĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | is to provide the students with an insight in the theoretical backgrounds of the plate tectonic theory and the motion of lithosphere plates and the consequences of these motions. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | understand the movements in the earth lithosfer | | | | LO - 2 : | explain the geotectonic setting of the basins more precisely | | | | LO - 3 : | understand plate movements | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Introduction; Lithosphere, astenosphere, crust, mantle; Geologic properties of plate boundaries; Seismic properties; Divergent plate boundaries; Oceanic ridges, ophiolite and ophiolitic mélanges; Continental rifts; Evolution of passive continental margins; Convergent plate boundaries; Island arcs, structure and types of island arcs, magmatic arc , volcanic arc; Transform plate boundaries; Transform faults and marks of plate motions; Plate Tectonics and orogenic belts; General properties of orogenic belts; Origin of orogens; Non-collisional orogenic belts; collisional orogenic belts; Displaced terrains and mountain building; Driving mechanism of mountain building. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Major tectonic hipothesis before the plate tectonic theory: Theory of Expansion,Theory of Contraction and Theory of Oscillation | | | Week 2 | Theories of Convection currents and continental drifting. | | | Week 3 | Geological properties of plate boundries: Lithosphere, asthenosphere, crust and mantle | | | Week 4 | Spreading centers and general characteristics: Tectonism, volcanism, magmatism and metamorphism in the spreading centers | | | Week 5 | Sedimentation in the spreading centers: Sedimentation on the active oceanic ridges,passive ridges and volcanic sea mounths. | | | Week 6 | Sedimentation in the spreading centers: Sedimentation on the oceanic platos, oceanic basins and passive continental margins; ophiolite and ophiolitic melange. | | | Week 7 | Continental rifts: Active rifting, passive rifting geological evolution of passive continental margins. | | | Week 8 | Transform faults, transform boundries and basins related to strike slip faults and sedimentation. | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Convegent plate boundries: Subduction zones, magmatism, volcanism and metamorphism in the subduction zones. | | | Week 11 | Sedimentation in the subduction zones: Sedimentation in the Trench, fore-arc, intra-arc and back-arc basins. | | | Week 12 | Continent-continent collision zones: Metamorphism and magmatism in the collision zones. | | | Week 13 | Sedimentation in the continent-continent collision zones: Remnant oceanic basins and late orogenic basins and sedimentation. | | | Week 14 | Plate tectonics and orogenic belts, general characteristics of orogenic belts, collisional and non-collisional orogenic belts, displaced terranes and mountain building. | | | Week 15 | Active tectonics of Turkey | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Arasınav | 10 | 0 | 0 | | Uygulama | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 15 | 2 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 110 |
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