Alasehir supradetachment basin, Western Turkey (by Z. O. Baran)
Alasehir Supradetachment basin by Zeynep Oner Baran
Zeynep Oner Baran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geology
Structural Geology - Tectonics & Basin Analysis
Thanks to all my students for making my teaching experience always so much enjoyable!
GEOL 692: Tectonics and Basin Evolution (Graduate Level)
Credits: 1 to 3
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A graduate-level course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. In this graduate-level seminar course, we will mainly focus on different types of sedimentary basins and their evolution in various tectonic settings. Every week, some scientific reading
material will be provided with a questionnaire and we will have interdisciplinary discussions regarding the week’s subject. Reading assignments and scientific discussions will help us to keep up with advances in sedimentary basin analysis, while learning about fundamentals of basin evolution.
GEOL 422-422L/522-522L: Tectonics & Sedimentary Basin Analysis (Undergraduate/Graduate Level)
Credits: (2-1) 3
Investigation of different types of sedimentary basins within their tectonic settings. Basin analysis studies involve multidisciplinary research using techniques and fundamentals of sedimentology, structural geology, petrography and petrology, and geomorphology. This course provides perspective on the main tectonic factors controlling overall basin evolution. The content and in-class discussions help students learn applications of basin analysis in industry and academic research. Graduate students are responsible for additional assignments held to a higher standard.
Pre-requisites: GEOL 322 and GEOL 331, or permission from the instructor
GEOL 622: Geotectonics (Graduate Level)
Credits: (3-0) 3
a global overview of plate tectonics and deformation processes at divergent, convergent and transform plate boundary settings and intracontinental tectonic settings.This course involve in-class discussions about how tectonics influence patterns of sedimentation, metamorphism, and igneous activities at different settings. Geological and geophysical techniques are discussed and applications are exlained with examples in order to provide an advance knowledge in basic geodynamic processes.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate or graduate level geophysics, structural geology, sedimentology classes should be taken prior to this class in order to gain a better understanding of explained processes.
GEOL 621/621L: Advanced Structural Geology (Graduate Level)
Credits: (2-1) 3
Examination of selected geologic terrains such as fold-thrust belts, Laramide foreland uplifts and basins, wrench and rift systems, etc., concentration on geometric styles, sequential and mechanical development and regional models. Includes selected readings and laboratory examinations of maps regarding the various types of terrains.
Prerequisites: GEOE 322/322L or permission of instructor.
Corequisites: GEOL-621L
GEOL 322/322L: Structural Geology (Undergraduate Level)
Credits: (2-1) 3
A study of the character and genesis of large-scale and small-scale deformation structures and their patterns in the earth’s crust. Laboratory work includes various trigonometric, geometric, and stereographic methods applicable to structural analysis and presents open-ended problems in geologic, structure contour, and isopach map interpretation.
Prerequisites: GEOL 331/331L and GEOL 341/341L;or GEOL 314/314L; Corequisites: GEOE 322L
GEOL 464-465: Senior Research I-II (Undergraduate Level)
GEOL 465 Senior Research I
Credits: (0-1) 1
A study of scientific research methodology with emphasis on identifying research problems and formulating a methodology to address a specific research question. Students will identify a topic of study chosen with the advice and approval of an instructor, and develop a proposal for their senior research project.
GEOL 465 Senior Research II
Credits: (0-3) 3
The student undertakes a field and/or laboratory study of a topic chosen with the advice and approval of an instructor. This work is basis for a thesis written in a standard format.
Prerequisites: GEOL 464
GEOL 792: Critical Thinking in Tectonics
Credits: (3-0) 3
Learning and applying critical thinking methods is an important process for successful completion of any research projects. In Tectonics, solving big picture and understanding global scale processes can be a challenge with limited resources and data, however critical thinking skills can help us overcome those challenges and be creative to find different, and useful research methods, and procedures to achieve our goals. As a common practice in Tectonics projects, Socratic questioning and other critical thinking methods are discussed and practiced in this class to help students improve high-order thinking skills before their graduation.