GEOL 306: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Course Description

Credits 4.
3 Lecture Hours.
3 Lab Hours.Origin of sediments and sedimentary rocks; climate, weathering, and weathering products; transport, deposition, and depositional environments for sediments; field and laboratory studies in description and interpretation of genesis of sedimentary rocks; principles of stratigraphy and basin analysis; plate tectonics and the formation of sedimentary basins; stratigraphic nomenclature; geologic time and correlation; sequence stratigraphy and basin architecture.Prerequisite:CHEM 119or equivalent;GEOL 152or equivalent.