COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EVAPORITS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GEO 4162 EVAPORITS ELECTIVE 2 2 0 5

Offered By

Geological Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YEŞIM YÜCEL ÖZTÜRK

Offered to

Geological Engineering (Evening)
Geological Engineering

Course Objective

Detail study of the evaporites and evaporites bearing rocks, formations of evaporites, and evaluatiof the evaporite bearing basins

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   evaporite environments
2   evaporit environment and minerals
3   distinguihing of marine and non-marine evaporites
4   mineral paragenesis and aplication to evaporite minerals
5   become familier of carbonete and sulphate minerals
6   become familier of borate minerals
7   learning of diagenesis
8   aplication of economic evaporite deposits and learning exploration methods

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 evaporitic environments
2 recent evaporitic environments in Türkiye amd in the world
3 marine evaporites
4 mineral paragenesis
5 Na, K and Mg salts
6 Continantal evaporites
7 I. Homework presentations
8 carbonates and sulphates
9 Na- sulphates
10 borates
11 Na- carbonates
12 diagenesis of evaporites
13 economic evaporite deposits
14 II. Homework presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Sonennenfeld,P. and Perthuisot,J.P, 1989,Brines and evaporites. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 126 page.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

oral and poster presantations, and lab works

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

two homeworks and final exam

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Cahit HLVACI
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi,
Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü
Buca -Izmir
Tel: (232) 3017307

Office Hours

after lecturing two more hours for meeting with students for their special questions

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for quiz etc. 2 5 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 1,5 2
Homework 2 1,5 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 131

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.154
LO.254
LO.354
LO.454
LO.554
LO.654
LO.754
LO.854