Quaternary Sedimentary Environments

3 credits · Undergraduate

The student is exposed to fluvial, alluvial, subglacial, glaciolacustrine, hillslope, eolian, coastal, shallow marine, rift, wedge top, retroarc, and foreland basin environments. Field trips and labs provide experience in methods used to distinguish the environments, including sedimentology, geomorphology, geochronology and thermochronology, and analysis of soils, cores, pebble fabrics, and section-scale non-petroleum sedimentary facies. Quaternary paleoclimatology and tectonic controls on weathering and deposition are discussed and debated. PREREQUISITES: ERTH 2203.03 CROSSLISTED: ERTH 3302.03 FORMATS: Lecture | Lab