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