COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THERMAL GEOPHYSICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GPE 5020 THERMAL GEOPHYSICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR COŞKUN SARI

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING

Course Objective

The course aims to provide for teaching thermal resourses of the Earth, heat generation in the Earth, thermal distribution in the Earth crust and inner Earth, thermal properties of the rocks, thermal conductivity and heat flow, heat flow measurements in land and in sea.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The ability to get information on termal resourses of the Earth, heat generation and heat conduction,
2   The ability to get information on temperature and heat distribution in the Earth crust and inner Earth,
3   The ability to analyze the concepts of heat flow and thermal gradient,
4   The ability of acquire information about the thermal properties and thermal conductivity of rocks,
5   The ability of thermal modeling and to interpret heat flow maps,

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Thermal resourses and types of the Earth
2 Heat generation and heat conduction in the Earth
3 Heat generation and heat conduction in the Earth (Cont.)
4 Distribution of temperature and heat distribution in the Earth
5 Distribution of temperature and heat distribution in the Earth (Cont.)
6 Heat flow and thermal gradient,
7 Mid-Term Exam
8 Thermal properties of rocks
9 Thermal conductivity
10 Principles of thermal modeling
11 Applications of thermal modeling
12 Importance of heat flow maps and their preparation
13 Heat flow measurements in land
14 Heat flow measurements in sea

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
1- Thermal Geophysics
A.M. Jessop, Elsevier, 1990.

2- Principles of Geophysics
N.H. Sleep and K. Fujita, Blackwell Publ., 1997.

Supplementary Book(s):

References: Articles related with the course content

Materials:

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course shall be given as lecture, class presentations and discussion format. All class members are expected to attend both the lecture and seminar hours and take part in the discussion sessions. Besides taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned for that week and presented to open a discussion session.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Homework Assignments: 25 % LO-1, LO-2, LO-3, LO-4
Mid-term Exam: 25 % LO-1, LO-2, LO-3
Final Exam: 50 % LO-1, LO-2, LO-3, LO-4, LO-5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Coşkun SARI
Dokuz Eylul University
Engineering Faculty
Department of Geophysical Engineering
Tınaztepe Campus
35160 Buca-Izmir
E-mail: coskun.sari@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing assignments 4 8 32
Preparation for quiz etc. 0 0 0
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.154321
LO.254321
LO.354123
LO.445123
LO.554123