Sedimentary Environments, Landforms, and Sequences (A)

4 ch (3C 3L) (W) · Undergraduate

Lectures focus on processes active in modern sedimentary environments, (e.g., rivers, lakes, deltas, estuaries, beaches, barrier islands, shallow and deep oceans); their geomorphologies (landform development/modification), and facies; and their interpretation and successions in the geologic record (sequence stratigraphy), particularly as they relate to the interpretation of changing sea-/lake-levels, and climate. Labs cover microscopic examination of sedimentary diagenesis, introductory air photo/image analysis and interpretation of landforms, and exercises relating to paleogeography, sea-/lake-level change, and (sequence-) stratigraphic correlation.