SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Dept. #0423, Course #C13-0
Date & Time:  Winter Quarter (alternate years);  TTh 10:30-12:00
Average enrollment: 10


COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Review of description and classification of sedimentary
rocks; principles of stratigraphy and sedimentology; methods of local, regional
and global correlation; interpretation of ancient depositional systems (facies
analysis); cyclostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy in the context of
tectonic, eustatic, and climatic controls on deposition; tectonics and basin
analysis.


PREREQUISITES:  Physical Geology (A01 or B01)

TEACHING METHODS: Two 1.5 Hr lectures per week.  

METHOD OF EVALUATION: 	Mid-term exam - mid-Feb
                        Final exam - mid-March
                        Term paper - outline due mid-Feb
                                   - paper due mid-March 
                        Class participation


TEXTS:    Boggs, 1995, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,        (B)
             Freeman and Co., N.Y., 410 pp.

          Plus selected books/articles on reserve (specifics listed below) 


SYLLABUS
Week        Topic                                               Reading
                                                           Txtbk      Reserve
#1          Introduction                                    B1 
            Weathering/Sediment Transport                   B2, 3       aa

#2          Sedimentary Textures                            B4          a
            Sedimentary Structures                          B5          b

#3          Description/Classification  - Siliciclastics    B6          c
            Description/Classification  - Carbonates        B7          d

#4          Description/Classification  - Other rocks       B8          e
            Depositional Environments/Facies                B9          f

#5          Nonmarine Environments                          B10         g
            Marine Siliciclastic Environments               B11         h

#6          Midterm
            Marine Siliciclastic Environments               B12         i

#7          Marine Carbonate Environments                   B13         j
            Lithostratigraphy                               B14         k

#8          Geophysical tools/Geochronology                 B16         l
            Biostratigraphy/Chronostratigraphy (HIRES)      B17,18      m

#9          Sequence Stratigraphy                           B14/15      n
            Cyclostratigraphy and Event Stratigraphy                    o

#10         Basin Analysis, Tectonics, and Sedimentation    B19         p
            Review

#11         Final Exam


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Reserve Reading

aa - Intro - Miall, 1995.
a - physical structures - Duke et al., 1991;  Sageman, 1996.
b - biogenic structures - Pemberton et al., 1992.
c - lithologic analysis and interpretation I - Harms, 1974.
d - lithologic analysis and interpretation II - Pratt, 1984.
e - lithologic analysis and interpretation III - Hite and Buckner, 1981 (Hite, 1972).
f - facies analysis - Moore, 1949; Sloss et al., 1949.
     facies models - Walker, 1992 (Reading, 1983;  Miall, 1990).
g - nonmarine siliciclastic facies models - Brookfield, 1992; Miall, 1992.
h - marine siliciclastic facies models - Bhattacharaya and Walker, 1992; Reinson, 1992;
						  Dalrymple, 1992.
i - marine siliciclastic facies models - Walker and Plint, 1992;  Walker, 1992.
j - carbonate facies models - James and Kendall, 1992.
k - codes and nomenclature - NA Stratigraphic Code; Harland, 1992.
l - subsurface and outcrop geophysical methods - Cant, 1992; Aigner et al., 1995.
m - time stratigraphy - Wheeler, 1964.
n - sequence stratigraphy - Van Wagnoner et al., 1988.
				   Plint et al., 1992; Weimer, 1991; Miall, 1992.
o - cyclostratigraphy - House, 1995; Fischer, 1995.
      event stratigraphy - Kauffman, 1986; Seilacher, 1991.
p - basin analysis - Slingerland, 1992; Ryer, 1993;  Gardner, 1995.