GEOCHEMISTRY OF SEDIMENTS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Construct a conceptual model for the climate system, which will provide a basis for testing key hypotheses about the mechanisms of climate change. Audience: Graduate 2. Construct a conceptual (semi-quantitative) model that accounts for spatial and temporal variability in ocean water chemistry and sediments. Audience: Graduate 3. Explain the vertical profile of elements within the ocean water column at any given location in the ocean. Audience: Graduate 4. Explain geographic variability of elements within ocean water. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the geographic distribution of different sediment types in the world’s oceans. Audience: Graduate 6. Explain the basis of common isotopic, elemental (trace, minor, major), and organic geochemical proxies for paleoenvironmental change. Audience: Graduate 7. Utilize sedimentary records of proxies to interpret paleoenvironmental change in Earth’s past. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Construct a conceptual model for the climate system, which will provide a basis for testing key hypotheses about the mechanisms of climate change. Audience: Graduate 2. Construct a conceptual (semi-quantitative) model that accounts for spatial and temporal variability in ocean water chemistry and sediments. Audience: Graduate 3. Explain the vertical profile of elements within the ocean water column at any given location in the ocean. Audience: Graduate 4. Explain geographic variability of elements within ocean water. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the geographic distribution of different sediment types in the world’s oceans. Audience: Graduate 6. Explain the basis of common isotopic, elemental (trace, minor, major), and organic geochemical proxies for paleoenvironmental change. Audience: Graduate 7. Utilize sedimentary records of proxies to interpret paleoenvironmental change in Earth’s past. Audience: Graduate