Course Symbol: EEG
Number: 454
Course Name: Geohazards
Pre-requisite courses: EEG 251
Course description: General considerations: hazardous earth processes such as floods,
landslides, subsidence, earthquake and related phenomena, volcanic activities, coastal hazards,
desertification and sand dunes migration.
Course objectives:
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2.
To understand the processes of natural and geological hazards in general.
To understand floods, desertification, landslides, desertification, earthquakes, subsidence,
and coastal hazards and sand migration in particular.
3.
Review geohazards cases in Saudi Arabia.
General references for course: (Books/Journals…etc.)
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Keller 1985. Environmental Geology.
Coch 1995. Geohazards: Natural and Human
Tobin & Montz 1997. Natural Hazards.
Bennett & Doyle 1999. Environmental Geology: Geology and the Human Environment.
‫المراجع العربية‬
‫ محمد‬/.‫ الحدث و المواجهة (معالجة جغرافية) تأليف د‬: ‫· األخطار و الكوارث الطبيعية‬
228 ‫م الناشر دار الفكر العربي‬2002 ‫هـ‬1422 ‫ محمد إبراهيم أرباب‬/.‫صبري محسوب و د‬
.)‫صفحة ( مكتبة جرير‬
‫م الناشر مركز النشر العلمي‬2002 ‫هـ‬1423 ‫ عمار عبدالمنعم أمين‬/.‫· الجيولوجيا البيئية تأليف د‬
.‫بجامعة الملك عبدالعزيز جده‬
Internet links:
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Volcanoes http://www.usgs.gov/themes/volcano.html
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Earthquakes http://www.usgs.gov/themes/earthqk.html
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Floods http://www.usgs.gov/themes/flood.html
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Landslides http://www.usgs.gov/themes/landslid.html
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Coastal storms and tsunamis http://www.usgs.gov/themes/coastal.html
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Water Resources Hazard Fact Sheets http://h2o.usgs.gov/public/wid/indexhazards.html
http://www.naturaldisasters.ednet.ns.ca/landslides.html
AGENCIES, which deal with natural hazards
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Natural Hazards Center - University of Colorado, Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/
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EMA - The GIS and software development team have put together a new
web site that describes GIS operations at FEMA and lists some of the maps
generated during a disaster. http://www.gismaps.feam.gov
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United Nations Natural Disasters
http://wwwnotes.reliefweb.int/websites/rwdomino.nsf/VNaturalDisastersTheLa
test
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World Resource Reviews - extreme events http://globalwarming.net/ext101.html
Course outcome: The student will be able to do the following:
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The general consideration of geological hazards.
Earthquake and volcanic hazards.
Flooding , coastal hazards, Tsunami.
Effects of sand dune movements.
Land failure hazards including: Earth fissuring, land subsidence , rock and
soil slope failure, Sabkah and expansive soils.
Scheme of assessment:
4 Exams:
40%
Assignments
30%
Final exam
30%
Course Lectures EEG 454 Time Table for
week
1
2
3
Saturday
Introduction
Earthquakes
Volcanic activity
4
5
6
video about hazards
Floods and Runoff
Video About Floods
7
8
9
10
Coastal hazards
Film about coastal Hazards
Desertification
Video About Sand Dunes
Monday
Types of hazards
Volcanic activity
Visit the geologic hazards
units in university
First Exam
Floods and Runoff
Visit to hydrology
Department
Tsunami
Second Exam
sand dunes
Third Exam
11
12
13
14
15
16
Mass Wasting
Subsidence
Films
Presentation of Seminar
Presentation of Seminar
Final Exam
Slope Stability
Sabkah
Fourth Exam
Presentation of Seminar
Field Trip
Homework Page