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Marine Geology

Code: 44558
ECTS: 5.0
Lecturers in charge: izv. prof. dr. sc. Kristina Pikelj
doc. dr. sc. Igor Felja
Lecturers: doc. dr. sc. Igor Felja - Practicum
izv. prof. dr. sc. Kristina Pikelj - Practicum
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English level:

1,0,0

All teaching activities will be held in Croatian. However, foreign students in mixed groups will have the opportunity to attend additional office hours with the lecturer and teaching assistants in English to help master the course materials. Additionally, the lecturer will refer foreign students to the corresponding literature in English, as well as give them the possibility of taking the associated exams in English.
Load:

1. komponenta

Lecture typeTotal
Lectures 30
Practicum 30
* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)
Description:
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.
Literature:
  1. Juračić, M.: Geologija mora (http://www.pmf.unizg.hr/geol/predmet/geomor_b)
  2. Selbold E. & Berger W.H.: The Sea Floor. An introduction to Marine geology. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
  3. Open University Course Team, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2002:
    -The Ocean Basins: Their Structure and Evolution
    -Seawater: Its Composition, Properties and Behaviour
    -Waves, Tides and Shallow Water Processes
    -Ocean Chemistry and Deep Sea Sediments
1. semester
Izborni predmeti - Regular study - Ecology and Nature Preservation
Consultations schedule: