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

Area:	Department of Applied Geology
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	2.0

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Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:	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 and glacial-interglacial changes. Climate change evidence in the marine geological record on long and short (thousand year) time scales.

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Field of Education:	010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster:	08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark
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