University :Mansoura University |
Faculty :Faculty of Science |
Department :Geology Department |
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| 1- Course data :- |
| | Code: | 31315 | | Course title: | أحافير كبيرة | | Year/Level: | ثالثة جيولوجيا خاص | | Program Title: | | | Specialization: | | | Teaching Hours: | Theoretical: | 3 | Tutorial: | | Practical: | 2 |
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| 2- Course aims :- |
| - Study the preservation and occurrence of plant fossils.
- Acquire the students skills of the system of classification to fully understand relationships between living and fossil organisms.
- Introduce the principles of biostratigraphic study that led to the development of the relative geologic time scale and as an important tool in stratigraphic correlation.
- Outline the basic information of palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography.
- Use the principles of paleobotany as a tool for exploration for Earth resources, especially diatomites, iron ore formations of the Precambrian and hydrocarbons.
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| 3- Course Learning Outcomes :- |
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| 4- Course contents :- |
| | No | Topics | Week |
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| 1 | Classification and fossil record of the plant kingdoms, preservation, origins and evolutionary | | | 2 | Methods used for the examination of fossil plants | | | 3 | Evolutionary history of major plant taxa , seedless vascular plants. | | | 4 | -Seed-bearing vascular plants, flowering plants. | | | 5 | Fossil flora of Egypt (Palaeozoic-Cenozoic) | | | 6 | Fossil plants and palaeoclimatology | | | 7 | Special applications of Palaeobotany | |
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| 5- Teaching and learning methods :- |
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| Laboratory work. | | Field exercises. | | Lectures using datashow and whiteboard. |
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| 6- Teaching and learning methods of disables :- |
| - The same as normal students, only skeletal disabilities are allowed in the Faculty of Science.
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| 7- Student assessment :- |
| A. Timing |
| | No | Method | Week |
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| 1 | Quiz. | 3 | | 2 | Mid-Term Exam. | 6 | | 3 | Practical exam. | 13 | | 4 | Oral and written exams. | 14 |
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| B. Degree |
| | No | Method | Degree |
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| 1 | Mid_term examination | 0 | | 2 | Final_term examination | 70 | | 3 | Oral examination | 10 | | 4 | Practical examination | 20 | | 5 | Semester work | 0 | | 6 | Other types of asessment | 0 | | Total | 100% |
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| 8- List of books and references |
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| 1 | Paleobotany - Course Notes | | | 2 | CD, power point Lectures | | | 3 | Andrews, H. N. (1961):Studies in Palaeobotany. New York: John Wiley & Sons. | | | 4 | Cooper, J. D., Miller, R. H. & Patterson, J.(1990): A trip through time: Principles of Historical Geology. 2nd Edition, Merril Publishing Co., 544 pp. | | | 5 | Thompson, G. R., Turk, J., & Levin, H. L. (1995): Earth : Present and past : An Environmental approach. Harcourt Brace & Co., 664pp. | |
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| 9- Matrix of knowledge and skills of the course |
| | S | Content | Study week |
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| Classification and fossil record of the plant kingdoms, preservation, origins and evolutionary | | | Methods used for the examination of fossil plants | | | Evolutionary history of major plant taxa , seedless vascular plants. | | | -Seed-bearing vascular plants, flowering plants. | | | Fossil flora of Egypt (Palaeozoic-Cenozoic) | | | Fossil plants and palaeoclimatology | | | Special applications of Palaeobotany | |
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| Course Coordinator(s): - |
| - Salah Yousef Mahmoud Elbialy
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| Head of department: - |
| Salah Nasr Ebrahim Ayad |
