Required field trips and field trip fee. Physical, chemical, and biological processes and their effects on sediment dispersal, deposition, and diagenesis. Geometry and lateral and vertical relationships between sedimentary rock bodies. Labs emphasize the description and analysis of sedimentary rock bodies. Emphasis is on the morphology, paleoecology, evolution, and stratigraphic and environmental significance of important fossil groups.
Labs stress fossil recognition.
Geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of natural rock deformation. Laboratory will focus on analytical and graphical techniques of modern structural analysis. Field trip fee required. On Demand 1 cr. SEM 1 Maximum 4 cr.