Two required field trips. Field trip fee. Study of surficial processes in modern and ancient geological environments. Topics include weathering, sediment transport, and landform genesis with emphasis on fluvial, glacial, hillslope, eolian, and coastal processes. Applications to engineering and environmental problems.
Laboratory emphasizes aerial photo and topographic map interpretation.
Field trip fee. S., offered 2000. Interpretation of clastic sedimentary rocks to infer processes, environments, and tectonic settings under which they formed. Major clastic facies of selected regions studied and analyzed. S., offered 2001.