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305530 (v.2) Geology 552 (Marine Geoscience)



 

Area:Department of Applied Geology
Contact Hours:2.0
Credits:25.0
Lecture:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Sedimentary environments in coastal, shelf and deep marine settings. Physical processes responsible for sediment erosion, transport and deposition in the marine environment. Seabed micromorphology. Organic and inorganic chemical processes in the oceans in relation to circulation, sedimentation and biological processes. Properties of seawater, biological cycling of nutrients, carbon and carbonate cycles in the ocean, water-sediment reactions, uses of stable isotopes, glacial-interglacial changes. Climate change evidence in the marine geological record on long and short (thousand year) time scales.

 

 

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