GEOS 365 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

(4 S.H.)

Physical, chemical, and biological processes that affect sedimentation and depositional systems. Study of stratigraphic nomenclature and correlation, facies models and depositional sequences, eustatic changes of sea level, and plate tectonics. Lecture, laboratory and required field trips. Prerequisites: ENG 111 - College Reading and Writing, GEOS 301 - Field and Analytical Methods I, GEOS 305 - Minerals and Rocks, and PHYS 201 - General Physics I or PHYS 221 - University Physics I. Grade only. Offered alternate years.