Minor in Environmental Studies - Quaternary Sedimentary Environments
ERTH 3302 Quaternary Sedimentary Environments
CREDIT HOURS: 3
The student is exposed to fluvial, alluvial, subglacial, glaciolacustrine, hillslope, eolian, coastal, shallow marine, rift, wedge top, retroarc, and foreland basin environments. Field trips and labs provide experience in methods used to distinguish the environments, including sedimentology, geomorphology, geochronology and thermochronology, and analysis of soils, cores, pebble fabrics, and section-scale non-petroleum sedimentary facies. Quaternary paleoclimatology and tectonic controls on weathering and deposition are discussed and debated.
FORMAT:
LAB HOURS PER WEEK: 4
PREREQUISITES:
ERTH 2203.03
CROSS-LISTING:
GEOG 3302