COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EVAPORITES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
JEO 4262 EVAPORITES ELECTIVE 2 2 0 6

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

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   evaporitic environments and minerals
3   distinguishing 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 and 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

Sonnenfeld, P. And Perthuisot, J.P., 1989, Brines and evaporites. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 126 s.
Dean, W.E. and Scheiber, B.C., 1978, Marine evaporites. SEPM Short Course, No.4, Tulsa, 188 s.
Borchert, H.and Muir, R.O., 1964, Salt deposits. D. Van Nostrand Company, Ltd. London, 338 s.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

oral and poster presantations, and lab works

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 LAB LABORATORY
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + LAB * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + LAB * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6, LO7 and LO8 are evaluated by midterm, final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Yeşim YÜCEL ÖZTÜRK
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi,
Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü
Buca -Izmir
Tel: (232) 3017359

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 14 2 28
Tutorials 14 2 28
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
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 138

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

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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