This course will cover:

• The weathering of rocks, and the development of Regolith.
• Development of soils.
• Sediments, cations and anions will be tracked into various depositional environments, from rivers, to deserts, to marginal marine environments to the deep sea.
• Fundamental concepts for deciphering depositional environments such as sedimentary textures and structures.
• Treatment of modern Stratigraphic disciplines: Lithostratigraphy, Magnetostratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy and Geologic Time.

The Masters level will include a research paper.

Note: Graduate students attend joint classes with undergraduates but will be assessed separately.

On completion of this course students will have:

1. Understanding of the processes that take place that influence sedimentary depositional environments.
2. Appreciation of the basic principles chemical and physical processess at the surface of the Earth.

Theory Exam (50%)

Practicals (30%)

Reports (20%)

Bachelor degree; with either first year Geology or first year Chemistry.

Geology or Chemistry to a first year level.