Geosciences 302: Sedimentation Spring 2003

Photo by Max Bertola (http://www.so-utah.com/archcany/homepage.html)

Instructor: Ronadh Cox, in the the Department of Geosciences at Williams College .

• Introduction to sedimentation
• Mechanisms of weathering
• Siliciclastics I: sandstones
• Siliciclastics II:constituents of sandstones
• Diagenesis of siliciclastic rocks
• Carbonate sediments
• Carbonate diagenesis
• Cherts, phosphorites and ironstones
• Fluid flow
• Bedload movement
• Flow separation
• Settling behaviour etc.
• Deposition of grains
• Bedforms
• Sediment gravity flows
• Fluvial environments
• Alluvial fan environments
• Deltas

 

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