This course deals with the interrelationships of geologic materials and processes with water. Water resources will be examined based on occurrence, movement, and chemistry. Consent of the instructor. The practical elements of gathering and evaluation subsurface data for geologic purposes related to exploration and exploitation of natural resources such as hydrocarbons, minerals, and groundwater. The course emphasizes mapping and modeling of geologic structures, stratigraphic analysis, interpreting depositional environments and rock relations dealing with subsurface problems.
Additional topics are subsurface storage and waste disposal.
GEOL 3234 or the consent of the instructor. Analysis of depositional environments based on the chemical and physical formation of sediment, the physics of sediment transport and post-depositional diagenetic phenomena. Laboratory work emphasizes textural analysis of sediments and petrographic analysis of thin section, general statistical analysis and report preparation. Directed field and laboratory research in problems of interest to the student.