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Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY	GEO224		0 + 0	3.0	5.0

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Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Graduate Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
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Goals	The aim of the course is to explain the geological engineering students how the earth scientist defines, classifies and makes assumptions about the past based on observations. The more information provided by outcrop observations, the more likely the events going through the rock masses can be interpreted correctly. The aim of this course is to equip students to obtain maximum information from outcrops. Accordingly, the aim of the course is to educate the students who know the stress / strain relationship in the lithosphere, understand the deformation measurement and know, the types of folds and fault types, especially distinguish these structures in the field, know and use the movement direction indicators, understand the differences of brittle and ductile deformation.
Course Content	Definition of structural geology, Stress and deformation, Folds, Cleavage, foliation and lineation, Cracks and shear fractures, Faults, Compatible and incompatible intrusions, Brittle - ductile transition, Shear zones, Basic concepts of plate tectonics. Applications: orthographic and stereographic projection methods, geological map analysis of structures.
Learning Outcomes	1) Defines the structural geology concept and structural geology studies 2) Describes the differences between structural geology and tectonics 3) Identifies the concept and types of deformation, solves, interprets and discusses deformation processes in rocks 4) Defines the concept of stress, explains the stress in rocks and lithosphere. Makes evaluations between stress and deformation using cause-effect relationships 5) Explains the rheology concept 6) Understands faults and faulting events, makes necessary comments 7) Identifies, defines and distinguishes ductile deformation structures (fold, foliation, lineation, shear zones) 8) Understands folds and folding processes, makes necessary comments 9) Distinguishes, compares and comments on different tectonic regimes (compression, expansion, strike-slip) 10) Identifies, defines and distinguishes brittle deformation structures (cracks, shear fractures, faults)