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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. |
Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | |
Area External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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