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Earth Sciences 460a/b Sedimentology of Clastic and Carbonate Rocks

An overview of the principal depositional environments of clastic and carbonate rocks, with emphasis on the recognition and interpretation of sedimentary facies and facies successions. Field and laboratory exercises involving outcrop and subsurface data will be used to integrate facies analysis with sequence stratigraphy.

Prerequisites: Earth Sciences 260a/b and 314b or the former Earth Sciences 311; or permission of the Department.
2 lecture hours, 3 laboratory hours, half course.


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