1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Practicum	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

History of marine research. Morphology and genesis of oceans. Sources and composition of marine sediments. Lithogenous, hydrogenous and biogenous sediments. Physical oceanography relevant for genesis and sea sediment disposition (wave, current, tide). Sea water and hydrogenous sediments. Coast, sea level processes and effects of sea level change. Climates and sediments. Estuarine and anti-estuarine water exchange currents and their influence to the sea bottom. Organisms and sea bottom. Residence time. Sedimentation rates. Paleocanography. Deep- sea sediments. Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea. Marine geological cartography. Sea-bottom sampling and data acquisition.

1. Selbold E. & Berger W.H.: The Sea Floor. An introduction to Marine geology. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
2. Juračić, M.: Geologija mora (http://www.pmf.unizg.hr/geol/predmet/geomor_b)

Izborni predmet - Regular study - Geology