Course Schedule
WEEK | TOPICS | CHAPTERS |
1 | Introduction, Historical Overview | 1 |
2 | Earth/Ocean Materials and Movement Marine Sediments |
2 |
3 | Plate Tectonics, Geochronology, Marine Environments & Features |
3 |
4 | Sediments of Ocean Basins Identification and Transport |
4 |
5 | Coastal waters, Geography, Sediment and Features | 9 |
6 | Oceanic & Neretic Provinces Abiotic & Biotic Interraction |
11,12 |
7 | MID TERM EXAM | |
8 | Sea Water & Sea Ice Geochemistry and Physics | 5 |
9/10 | Ocean Currents - Surface & Deep water Vertical Aspects |
6,7 |
11 | Waves - Gravity and Rogue Waves, Tides |
8 |
12 | Marine Minerals/Energy | 4.9,7.12,8.16 |
13 | Food from the Sea, Marine Medicine | 11.14, 12.11 |
14 | Man and the ocean | 9.11 |
Text: A.B & A.C Duxbury et. Al, Fundamentals of Oceanography, McGraw Hill - 2002
Exams: Mid-Term 150 Questions (+) (Objective)
Final 150 Question (+) (Objective)
All make-up exams are oral
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John F. Looney Jr., Ed.D
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