GEOL 3109

(3 Credits) 3 Lecture hours, 3 Laboratory hours A detailed investigation of sedimentary rocks, sedimentary processes, and depositional environments of clastic and carbonate rocks. Topics include: description, classification and origin of sedimentary rocks; sedimentary structures; facies analysis and relationship to depositional environments; formal methods in stratigraphy; and diagenesis of cladistics and carbonates, with petrographic study.