Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
BIOSTRATIGRAPHY 801200805160 3 + 0 3.0 10.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Presntations, homeworks
Course Coordinator
Instructors Muhittin GÖRMÜŞ
Assistants
Goals To teach rules and methods being applied in biostratigraphical studies
Course Content Description of biostratigraphy, biozone types (assemblage, aboundance, range, concurrent, interval and oppel biozones) and their preferring causes related to fossil groups, measuring section examples, sampling, examples from biozone definitions of various fossil taxon or groups from Turkey and other parts of the world.
Learning Outcomes 1) Rules of biostratigraphical nomenclature will be learnt
2) Methods of measuring stratigraphic section, gathering fossiliferous rRock samples and preparing to determination will be learnt
3) Knowledge will be obtained about biozone recognitions preferred with regard to different fossil groups
4) Significance of biostratigraphical studies in geological studies will be understood

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction: Stretigraphical Meanings of Fossil Assemblages, Description of Biostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy Units Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Biostratigraphy Units: I -Range Zone and Dating of Rocks Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Biostratigraphy Units: I - Abundance Zone and exampes Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Biostratigraphy Units: I I- Assemblage Zone and exampls Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Biostratigraphy Units: I V- Interval Zone, con-current zone and examples Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Measuring of stratigraphic section and biostratigraphic evaluation Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Biozone Types related to Paleozoic Fossil Records Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Biozones of Mesozoyic and their fossil Records Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Biozonef of Cenozoic and fossil Records. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Rock/Succession Type and Sedimentary Environment with Biozone Relations. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Reliable or Suspicious Fossil Records in Biostratigraphical Studies Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Statistical Interpretations of Fossil Records in Rocks Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Examples from Recent Biostratigraphical Studies Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week General evaluations Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Black, M. R. 1975. The elements of Paleontology. Cambridge Univ. Pres, ISBN 0.521.07445.2, 340p.
Gökçen, N. 1993. Paleobiyolojik Ortamlar. Dokuz Eylül Üniv. Müh. Fak. Yayınları, no.231. 120s.
Görmüş, M., 1996. Foraminiferler ile fosilleşme analizine bir örnek: Isparta dolayları Kretase-Tersiyer istifleri. Çukurova University Geosound 28, 103-124.
Koutsoukos, E.A.M., 2005. Applied Stratigraphy. In Geobiology, Springer, vol. 23, 488 pp. ISBN, 1-4020-2632-3.
Mial, A.D., 1984. Principles of Sedimentary Basin analysis. Springer-Verlag, 668 pp.
Reading, H.G., 1978. Sedimantary Environments and Facies, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 557p. ISBN: 0.632.00435-
Sagular E.K., 2003. Nannofosil verilerinin stratigrafik yaş ve ortamsal tanımlamalarda kullanımına ilişkin yeni bir inceleme yöntemi. SDÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi (Özel Sayı), 7(2), 25-36.

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 2 10
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 1 10
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice , Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice) 2 30
Quiz 5 2
Midterm Exam 3 20
Final Exam 1 30
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 30
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