CARBONATE GEOLOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and describe in hand samples and in thin sections the biotic and abiotic constituents of carbonate sediments and rocks. Audience: Graduate 2. Characterize the physical and chemical properties of the environments in which carbonate sedi-ments form. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the diagenetic processes that occur in carbonates and recognize the products of these diagenetic processes in hand samples and thin sections. Audience: Graduate 4. Generate hypotheses for the specific origin and diagenetic history of carbonate rocks. Audience: Graduate 5. Generate predictive models for the spatial and temporal distribution and properties of carbonate sed-iments and sedimentary deposits. Audience: Graduate 6. Analyze geologic databases in order to describe and quantify the spatial and temporal distribution of carbonate sediments in the rock record. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and describe in hand samples and in thin sections the biotic and abiotic constituents of carbonate sediments and rocks. Audience: Graduate 2. Characterize the physical and chemical properties of the environments in which carbonate sedi-ments form. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the diagenetic processes that occur in carbonates and recognize the products of these diagenetic processes in hand samples and thin sections. Audience: Graduate 4. Generate hypotheses for the specific origin and diagenetic history of carbonate rocks. Audience: Graduate 5. Generate predictive models for the spatial and temporal distribution and properties of carbonate sed-iments and sedimentary deposits. Audience: Graduate 6. Analyze geologic databases in order to describe and quantify the spatial and temporal distribution of carbonate sediments in the rock record. Audience: Graduate