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Mineralogy and Resource Geology

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Lecture Objectives

• This course includes mineralogy, economic geology, and mineral processing for understanding basic theories and applications of mineral resources. Mineralogy focuses on the identification of minerals by covering the classification of minerals and analysis methods. Economic geology focuses on the understanding of various mineral deposits by covering interpretation of geotectonic, geological and geochemical formation environments to form mineral deposits. Mineral processing covers the basic areas for understanding the industry utilization of minerals and the study of mineral process for them.

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Climate Change and Geologic Hazards

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Lecture Objectives

• Recently, climate change has become prominent around the world due to the increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activities, greatly affecting not only the natural environment but also the social and economic sectors. In addition, geologic hazards such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and landslides are causing greater damage than in the past as the areas of human activities and industrial facilities expand. This course aims to understand the characteristics of paleoclimate, global environmental changes due to climate change and various geologic hazards, identify relevant research trends, and cultivate basic capabilities to respond to these problems and reduce damage from a geoscientific perspective.

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Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy

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Lecture Objectives

• This course will serve on studying sedimentation system and stratigraphy including geochronology from environmental changes, which carried out not only sedimentary rocks but also on the unconsolidated sedimentary layer, and learning of process of sediment transport and sedimentation in order to understand the fossilization of microbiomes that lived on Earth surface in the past, and systematic taphonomic study of the microfossils and their application to paleoenvironmental reconstruction, the methodology and establishment of biostratigraphy and their application to correlate the inter-sedimentary strata and -basins using index fossils.

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Advanced Quaternary Geology

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Lecture Objectives

• Understanding the basic concepts and theories of Quaternary geology and learning various proxy-based on Quaternary research techniques. Basic and specialized theory-oriented lectures on sedimentary environment and stratigraphy research in the Quaternary period, distribution and paleoecology in the Quaternary period, palaeoclimatic and paleoenvironment tracking research in the Quaternary period, and data interpretation. Learning basic concepts and equipment operation methods of analysis equipment for Quaternary geological research.

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Seismotectonics

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Lecture Objectives

• This course introduce principals of seismology, theory of seismic wave and seismic source, active tectonics, and earthquake behaviors of active faults. The object of this course is, based on analysis of instrumental seismicities, historical earthquakes, and pre-historic paleo-earthquakes, to investigate relations between active faults and earthquakes and to understand crustal deformations associated with tectonic motions of the plates at the present day.

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Advanced Geological Sciences

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Lecture Objectives

• This course will serve on understanding the various interactions between the Earth's constituent materials and the surrounding atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. To this end, we will study about geoscience tools that can interpret and evaluate changes in the earth system from the past to the present and the future, and apply them to the field through practice.

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Geodata Science

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Lecture Objectives

• This course provides an overview and understanding of the use of data science to solve geoscience-related problems related to geoscience including geology. The purpose of this course is to provide basic concepts and basic theories related to data analysis and to develop the ability to interpret and analyze actual geology and earth science data using data science. This course deals with methods for processing common spatio-temporal characteristics of geoscience data such as multivariate statistical analysis, spatial information analysis, geostatistics, and uncertainty analysis.

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Advanced Hydrogeology

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Lecture Objectives

• This course is designed to understand general groundwater theories for groundwater generation, circulation, and movement, groundwater flow equation, groundwater quality, transport mechanisms of pollutants in groundwater, existence of groundwater and resource evaluation. It includes basic hydrogeological theories and techniques for the groundwater resource evaluations.

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Subsurface Microbiology

Summary

Lecture Objectives

• This course will serve as an introduction to general microbiology in groundwater and sediment environments, which includes cell structure, microbial growth, ecology, and interaction between contaminants and bacteria. This course aims understanding subsurface microorganisms are play an important role of the many biogeochemical processes for the protection and sustainable use of subsurface resources.

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Environmental Clay Mineralogy

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Lecture Objectives

• Clay minerals, fine-grained hydrous phyllosilicates, are geo-materials crucial in understanding dynamic interaction of the Earth system (biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere). The aim of this course is to introduce structural features of clay minerals, classification criteria, geological environments of formation, physico-chemistry, and analyses.

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Environmental Geochemistry

Summary

Lecture Objectives

• This course will provide advanced topics on distribution and behaviors of substances and elements in groundwater, soil, sediments and rocks, which includes identification of major factors and mechanisms controlling their distribution and applications to characterization of water and soil environment, environmental contamination, and geochemical exploration. This course aims understanding implications of processes controlling distribution of substances and elements in various environmental media using geochemical, biogeochemical, and isotopic techniques.