Course Syllabus: pdf file
- Week 1: Introduction to Sedimentary Geology
- Week 2: Description of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Depositional Environments, Fluid Hydraulics (Sediment Erosion, Entrainment, Transport, and Deposition)
- Week 3: Entertainment, Transport, Deposition, Structure: Reynolds #, Froude #, and Bernouli, Hjülstrom diagram, Sediment Gravity Flows, Sedimentary Structure, Bedforms, Flow Regimes, Ripples, Dunes
- Week 4: Sedimentary Structures
- Week 5: Siliciclastic Sediments and Rocks
- Week 6: Siliciclastic Sediments and Rocks; Terrestrial Environments, Coastal, and Marine Environments
- Week 7: Terrestrial Environments
- Week 8: Terrestrial Environments
- Week 9: Terrestrial Environments; Carbonate Sediments and Rocks
- Week 10: Carbonate Sediments and Rocks; Carbonate Environments
- Week 11: Coastal, and Marine Environments
- Week 12: Coastal, and Marine Environments
- Week 13: Coastal, and Marine Environments; Lithostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Correlation; Geochronology
- Week 14: Geochronology; Basin Analysis
- Week 15: Video Presentations
- Lab 1: Wentworth (1929) Grain Size Classification
- Lab 2: Mad River Beach: Sediment Characterization
- Lab 3: Sedimentary Rock Identification (1)
- Lab 4: Mad River: Flow and Clast Analyses
- Lab 5: Mad River Slough: Stratigraphic Description and Interpretation
- Lab 6: Sedimentary Rock Identification (2)
- Lab 7: Centerville Beach: Quaternary History
- Lab 8: Particle Size Analysis
- Lab 9: Big Lagoon: Stratigraphic Column and Sedimentary History
- Lab 10: Turbidite Correlation
- Lab 11: Well Log Correlation
- Lab 12: Radiocarbon Age Calibration and Correlation
- Lab 13: Review Hand Specimens
- Quizzes
- Cape Sebastian 11/14/15
- Here are all field trip photo slide shows.
- Here is research paper writing guide and example paper.
- Here is the rubric that will be used to evaluate all reports and research papers.
Lectures
Labs
Quizzes
Field Trips
Field Trip Photos
Research Paper Guide
Schedule

Geological Society of America Timescale (click on image to download pdf file).