12.110 | Fall 2004 | Undergraduate

Sedimentary Geology

Lecture Notes

As of the date of publication, only selected lecture notes for sessions 1 through 11 were available.

lec # TOPICS
1 Organizational Meeting (PDF)
2 Sediment Production (PDF)
3 Conservation of Mass and Momentum (PDF - 2.2 MB)
4 Sediment → Deposit → Rock
5 Bedforms (PDF)
6 Sedimentary Structures
7 Depositional Environments and Facies Models (PDF)
8 Alluvial Fans (PDF 1 of 2 - 1.5 MB) (PDF 2 of 2 - 2.6 MB)
9 Rivers
10 Deltas
11 Eolian Systems (PDF)
12 Shorelines and Nearshore
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

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