Certainly, geological interpretations and models can only be as strong as the correlations upon which they are based. In this course, students enhance their skills for describing sedimentary rocks and interpretting depositional settings and learn the principles and techniques for correlating rocks. Through integrated coursework, laboratory exercises, fieldtrips, and library research, students study a complex succession of sedimentary rocks. They correlate and interpret this succession using their own field data, subsurface data, and published data. Their findings are presented as a professional-quality written report similar to the type of report that would be required for many environmental, geotechnical, or exploration geology projects.
Students learn to make careful field observations and interpret field data.