2016-2017 Academic Bulletin 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2016-2017 Academic Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GEO 410 - Sedimentology and Sedimentary Petrology


Credits: 4
Hydrodynamics of sediment movement, depositional products, and environmental systems as a basis for stratigraphic analysis. Also, detrital mineralogy and major sedimentary rock types in relation to basin type and tectonic setting. Laboratories include study of sedimentary structure sets from modern marine and variety of ancient environmental systems, some aspects of applied paleontology, petrographic analysis, and the field study of modern and ancient deposits Laboratory, one period.

Prerequisite: GEO 108  or GEO 110 , GEO 120  or permission of the instructor.

Distribution Requirements: QR, SP.