12.110 | Fall 2004 | Undergraduate

Sedimentary Geology

Calendar

lec # TOPICS
1 Organizational Meeting
2 Sediment Production
3 Conservation of Mass and Momentum
4 Sediment → Deposit → Rock
5 Bedforms
6 Sedimentary Structures
7 Depositional Environments and Facies Models
8 Alluvial Fans
9 Rivers
10 Deltas
11 Eolian Systems
12 Shorelines and Nearshore

Midterm Exam
13 Continental Shelf
14 Shelf-Continental Slope
15 Continental Slope-Deep Ocean
16 Carbonates - An Overview
17 Shallow Marine Carbonates
18 Reefs (Guest Lecturer)
19 Stratigraphic Processes: Controls on Position of the Shoreline
20 Stratigraphic Incompleteness: Litho-, Bio-, and Chrono-Stratigraphy
21 Internal versus Externally Generated Signals in Stratigraphy
22 Interpreting Basin-scale Stratigraphy

Final Exam

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Fall 2004
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