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| JLJ7272 | Carbonate Depositional Systems | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Objectives of the CourseThe aim of this course is to train the students about the basic concepts and terminology of carbonate depositional systems including marine shallow-water and lacustrine carbonates and deep-water facies of pelagic and resedimented limestones. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Make students well- informed about basic sedimentary facies | 2,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 2 : | Provide students to contact with rocks, sedimentary facies and environment | 2,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 3 : | Make students catch on the phenomenon of rocks diagenesis | 2,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 4 : | Make students catch on the different carbonates depositional areas | 2,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 5 : | Give students the experience of results of the applied | 2,4 | 1,3 | | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Contents of the CourseMarine shallow-water and lacustrine carbonates: Coastal and offshore environments, Shelf-margin sand bodies, Peritidal carbonates, Lacustrine carbonates, Reefs; Deep-water facies of pelagic and resedimented limestones: Introduction to pelagic carbonates, Pelagic oozes and organisms, Controls on pelagic carbonate sedimentation, Pelagic carbonate sedimentation rates, Deposition of modern pelagic carbonates, Ancient pelagic carbonates, Pelagic facies models, Introduction to resedimented carbonates, Processes of carbonates resedimentation, Modern resdimented carbonates, Facies models for resedimented carbonates, Ancient resedimented carbonates |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction and Definition | | | Week 2 | Sedimentary Prorecesses and environments | | | Week 3 | Terrestrial carbonate environmrnts | | | Week 4 | Lagunal carbonates | | | Week 5 | Deltaic Carbonates | | | Week 6 | Shallow water environments and fossileferous sandy limestone | | | Week 7 | Transect of the Clastic and non clastics carbonate facies | | | Week 8 | Shelf Carbonates | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Classification of the Carbonate platform | | | Week 11 | Evolution of the Platform carbonate | | | Week 12 | Platform to slope carbonates | | | Week 13 | Reefal carbonates | | | Week 14 | Deep marine carbonates | | | Week 15 | Candanced Carbonate system | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Prothero, R.D. and Schwab, F., 1996, Sedimentary Geology, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York | | | |
| 1 | Wilson, J. L, 1974, Characteristics of Carbonate platform Margins, Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Tulsa | | | 2 | Tucker, M. E., 1985a, Shallow-marine carbonate facies an facies models, İn: Sedimentology: Recent Developments and Applied Aspects (Ed. by P. J. Brenchley and B.P.J. VVilliams), Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. Lond. | | | 3 | Scholle, P. A., Bebout, D. G. ve Moore, C. H. (Eds)., 1983, Carbonate depositional environ-ments, Amer. Assoc. Petr. Geol., 33,708 p. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 01/04/2013 | 1 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 8 | 15/05/2013 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 01/07/2013 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 10 | 10 | 100 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 15 | 1 | 15 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 5 | 4 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 20 | 1 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 201 |
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