COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED METHODS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GEE 5024 ADVANCED METHODS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TALIP GÜNGÖR

Offered to

Applied Geology
Applied Geology

Course Objective

THE AIM OF THIS COURSE IS TO TEACH TO ESTABLISH THE RELATION BETWEEN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND OTHER FIELDS OF THE GEOLOGY

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   MEASURE THE STRUCTURES
2   STATISTICALLY EVALUATE THE STRUCTURES MEASURED
3   IDENTIFY THE MULTIPLY DEFORMATION
4   EXPLAIN THE ECONOMIC FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURES

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 FUNDAMENTALS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
2 MAPPING OF THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
3 MAPPING OF THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
4 GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MESOSCOPIC STRUCTURES
5 GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MESOSCOPIC STRUCTURES
6 ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS
7 STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS, EQUAL AREA PROJECTIONS
8 FRACTURE AND JOINT ANALYSIS
9 MIDTERM EXAM
10 ANALYSIS OF SHEAR ZONES
11 ANALYSIS OF VEINS
12 ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLY DEFORMED AREAS
13 ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLY DEFORMED AREAS
14 ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF JOINT ANALYSIS

Recomended or Required Reading

Moores MM and Twiss RJ 1995 Tectonics, WH Freeman and Company, New York, 4"5 p. ISBN:0-7167-2437-5
Davis G.H., Reynolds S.J. 1996. Structural geology of rocks and regions. John Wiley and sons, inc. New York. ISBN: 0 471 52621 5, 776 p.
Marshak S. & Mitra G. 1988. Basic Methods of Structural Geology. Prentice Hall. 445 p.
Ragan D.M. 1973. Structural Geology: An introduction to geometrical techniques, 2 nd.edition. John Wiley & Sons. 208 p.
Badgley PC 1965 Structural and Tectonic Principles, Harper & Row publishers, New York. LCCCN: 65-16489.
Badgley PC 1959 Structural methods for the exploration geologist, Harper and brothers
publishers Mew York , LCCCN: 59-11039

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, HOMEWORKS, EXCURSION

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

MIDTERM EXAM - HOMEWORK - EXCURSION - FINAL EXAM LO1 - LO4

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Talip Güngör, talip.gungor@deu.edu.tr, 2323017333

Office Hours

wednesdays, 1500-1700

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Field study 1 8 8
Reading 14 2 28
Midterm 1 4 4
Final 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 197

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.12235
LO.22235
LO.3312353
LO.431233534

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