GEOL 3130 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

4 Credits (3 Contact Hours)

Topics include origin, composition, and texture of sediments and sedimentary rocks; sedimentation processes, depositional environments, facies relationships, and diagenesis; introduction to stratigraphic methods and geochronology. Laboratory involves description and classification of hand specimens and thin sections and analytical methods. Preq: GEOL 2050. Coreq: GEOL 3131.