EASC 402: Sedimentology
| Credits: | 3 |
Pre-requisites: | EASC 302 |
Lecture (hrs/week): | 2 |
| Terms: | Fall |
Co-requisites: | None |
Lab (hrs/week): | 3 |
| Instructors: | MacEachern | ||||
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Description:
This course is an advanced treatment of facies characteristics and interpretation, facies model concepts, applications of ichnology to depositional environment interpretation with an emphasis on siliciclastic successions, and genetic stratigraphic applications to facies analysis. Course content will include terrestrial, marginal marine and marine environments, in both siliciclastic and carbonate depositional settings. The development of effective field criteria for the interpretation of the sedimentary record will be considered. The ethological (behavioural) classification of biogenic structures, as well as their applications to the ichnofacies concept and to paleoenvironmental interpretation of the sedimentary record will be considered. Students will examine the utility of facies analysis in the various genetic stratigraphic frameworks and the viability of reconstructing the depositional history of sedimentary successions. Relative sea level changes and their effects on deposition will be discussed in relation to the preserved sedimentary record.
Course Topics- Facies Characteristics and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation.
- Facies Model Concepts for Siliciclastic and Carbonate Successions.
- Ichnology and Sedimentary Facies Analysis.
- Genetic Stratigraphy and Relative Sea Level Changes.
Reading. H.G., 1996, Sedimentary Environments and Facies: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy, 3rd edition: Blackwell Scientific Publishing, 688p.