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

Copyright ©2010 John F. Looney Jr., Ed.D
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