COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FIELD AND ROCK PROPERTIES OF NATURAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS AS BUILDING STONES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
NBG 5026 FIELD AND ROCK PROPERTIES OF NATURAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS AS BUILDING STONES ELECTIVE 2 0 2 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ISMAIL IŞINTEK

Offered to

NATURAL BUILDING STONES AND GEMSTONES
Geological Engineering Orientation Program

Course Objective

To teach effect of formation characteristics and rock properties of detritic or carbonate sedimentary rocks on being buildingstone, to relate these properties with quary and manufactural problems and to examine echonomic importance of sedimentary rocks as buildingstone.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Able to describe properties of detritic and carbonate sedimentary rocks which are effect being building stone.
2   Able to classify detritic and carbonate sedimentary rocks as macroscobic.
3   Able to relate being buildingstone with kind of detritic and carbonate sedimentary rocks.
4   Able to carry out descriptive investigation of a buildingstone or potantially buildingstone.
5   Able to make specific maps including building Stone charecteristics of sedimentary rocks.
6   Able to compare different sedimentary rocks using as buildingstones.
7   Able to establish litostratigraphic section of buildingstone sequences.
8   Able to evaluate characteristics of buildingstone at solving of production and fabrication problems, in quary and factory.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Sedimentary rocks using as buildingstone
2 Limestones as a industrial merbels
3 Effect of grain and texture characteristics on to be the building stone
4 Fossil contain of limestones and their effect on to be the building stone
5 Primary sedimentary structures of limestone and their effect on to be the building stone
6 Secondary sedimantary structures of limestones and their effect on to be the building stone
7 Middterm 1
8 Diagenetic characteristics of limestones and their effect on to be the building stone
9 Dolomites and their potantial as building stone
10 Travertines and their potantial as building stones
11 Facies and porosity characteristics of travertines and their effect on to be the building stone
12 Marls, mudstones and sandstones and their potantial as building Stone and decorative stone
13 Conglomerates and their potantial as decorative stone
14 Middterm 2

Recomended or Required Reading

Smith, M. R., 1999. Stone: Building Stone, rock fill and armourstone in construction. GSEG, no.16. p.478.

Wilson J. L. 1975, Carbonate Facies in geologic history. Springer-Verlag. 471p.

Flügel, E., 1978, Microfazielle untersuchungsmethoden von kalken. Springer-Verlag, 454p.

Flügel, E. 1982, Microfacies Analiysis of limestone. Springer-Verlag. 633p.

Pettijohn F. J. Potter, P. E. & R, Siever, 1972, Sand and sandstone, Springer-Verlag, 618p.

Tucker, M. E. & Bathurst, R. G. C., (eds) 1990. Carbonate diagenesis. IAS., Reprint series vol. 1, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 312p.

Rezak, R. & lavoie D. L., (eds). 1993. Carbonate microfabrics. Springer-Verlag, 313p.

Blatt, H., 1992. Sedimentary petrology. W. H. Freeman and Company, 514p.

Müller, G. & Fredman G. M., (eds), 1968. Recent developments in carbonate sedimentology in Central Europe, Springer-Verlag, 255p.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral and visual cours and laboratory

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.25 + MTE 2 * 0.25 + FCG * 0.5
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.25 + MTE 2 * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterms are exemined under laboratory conditions in practise

Assessment Criteria

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8th learning outcomes will be evaluated by midterm, final exam and makeup exam.
1, 2 and 4th learning outcomes will be evaluated by laboratory exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Tel: 0232 301 73 28
E-Mail: ismail.isintek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

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 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 2 25 50
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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