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| SEC 415 | Geodynamics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL 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: | | Geodynamics is concerned with the fundamental processes, which drive the evolution of the Earth. The course provides the fundamentals necessary for an understanding of the workings of the Solid Earth in the context of plate tectonics and mantle convectio |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | possess mean information about dynamic earth. | 3,5 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | understand cause and effect of dynamic events with helping plate tectonics theory. | 3,5,8 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | compass and interpret cause and effect of dynamic influences in dynamic earth. | 3,5,8 | 1 | | 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 | | |
| Introduce basic physical principles of Earth? s structure and dynamics. Rheology of the Earth' s materials. Plate tectonics. Plate kinematics and relative plate motions at the plate boundaries. Oceanic crust and spreading centers. Heat transfer in the Earth. Convection. Coupling between mantle convection and crustal deformation. Plumes and subduction zones. Seismicity and distribution of stress regime within the lithosphere. Earth?s gravity. Crustal deformations. Example from Turkey and surrounding regions. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction and scope | | | Week 2 | Earh's shape, plate tectonics and plate boundaries | | | Week 3 | Seismicity and state of the stress in the lithosphre | | | Week 4 | Ridge centers and transform faults | | | Week 5 | The subduction and convergane zones, Volcanism | | | Week 6 | National holiday | | | Week 7 | stability, evolution and calculation of the triple junctions | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Heat transfer and heat flow | | | Week 10 | measuring the continental and oceanic heat flow, thermal gradient | | | Week 11 | Rock magnetism, paleomagnetism | | | Week 12 | Stress and strain in two-three dimeonsions in solidus | | | Week 13 | The gravitational potential and the geoid, Isostatic geoid anomalies | | | Week 14 | Faulting and classification of faults, Geotermics | | | Week 15 | Midterm exam | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Turcotte, D.L., Shuebert, G., 2002, Geodynamics, Cambridge University Pres. | | | 2 | Shuebert, G., Turcotte, D.L., Olson, P., 2001, Mantle convection in the earth planets, Cambridge University Press. | | | |
| 1 | Fowler, C.M.L., 1990, The solid earth, Cambridge University Press. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 10/11/2012 | 120 | 30 | | Quiz | 15 | 24/12/2012 | 60 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 08/01/2013 | 120 | 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 | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 14 | 1 | 14 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 79 |
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