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Prerequistes
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Course ID
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Course name
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EEG 201, EEG 251
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EEG 454
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Geohazards
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Course Description
General considerations: hazardous earth processes such as floods, landslides, subsidence, earthquakes and related phenomena, volcanic activities, coastal hazards, desertification, and send dunes migration.
Course Objectives
1. To understand the processes of natural and geological hazards in general.
2. To understand floods, desertification, landslides, desertification, earthquakes, subsidence, and costal hazards, and in particular, sand migration.
3. Review geohazards cases in Saudi Arabia.
General References for the Course: (Books/Journals...etc.)
Students in this course can read from:
1. Environmental Geology, 4th Edition, by Keller, Edward A., 1985. Charles E. Merril Publishing Co.
2. Environmental Geology: Geology and the Human Environment, by Bennett, M.R., & Doyle, P., 1997.New York: John Wiley & Sons.
3. Geohazards: Natural and Human, by Coch, N.K., 1995. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prentice Hall.
4. Natural Hazards: Explanation and Integration, by Tobin, G.A. and Montz, B.E., 1997. Guilford Publishing: New York.
List of URLs for this Course
- http://www.naturaldisasters.ednet.ns.ca/landslides.html
- http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov
- Volcanoes http://www.usgs.gov/themes/volcano.html
- Earthquakes http://www.usgs.gov
- Floods http://www.usgs.gov/thems/flood.html
- Landslides http://www.usgs.gov/thems/landslide.html
Course Outcome
The student will learn the following:
1. Student can be able to know the general consideration of geological hazards.
2. Student can predict the earthquake and volcanic hazards.
3. Student can predict the flooding, coatal hazards, Tsunami.
4. Student can know the effects of sand dune movements.
5. Student can know the land failure hazards including: Earth fissuring, land subsidence, rock and soil slope failure, sabkha and expansive soils.
Scheme of assessment:
Periodical examination: 30%
Practical works: 30%
Final exam: 40%
Timetable for course lectures:
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Introduction:Types of Hazards
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1 |
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Earthquakes
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2 |
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Earthquakes
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3 |
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Volcanic activity
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4 |
| First exam |
5 |
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Flooding hazards
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6 |
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Coastal hazards
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7 |
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Tsunami
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8 |
| Second exam |
9 |
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Sand dune hazards
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10 |
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Land failures and slopes
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11 |
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Rock and soil slopes
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12 |
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Earth fissuring
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13 |
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Land subsidence
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14 |
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Sabkha problems
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15 |
| Final exam |
16 |
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