Geology 314 Laboratory Schedule:

Lab meets Tuesday's from 1:50 - 5:10 PM in Harrington Hall 313.

Sept. 6 Read Chps. 2 & 3 in textbook.
Sept. 13 Modern clastic sediments; Interpreting grain size and shape (*chp. 3).
Sept. 20 Grain size measurement techniques and analysis. Modern clastic sediments II (*chp. 3).
Sept. 27 Quantitative grain size measurement analysis and interpretation. (*chp. 3)
Oct. 4 Fluid Mechanics (*chp. 2).
Oct. 11 Siliciclastic rock classification and description (*chp. 3).
Oct. 18 Field trip sample analyses.
  Saturday Required all day field trip -- Saturday, October 22
Oct. 25 Sedimentary structures I (*chp. 4).
Nov. 1 Sedimentary structures II (*chp. 4).
Nov. 8 Paleoecology: Biological effects on sedimentation (*chp. 4).
Nov. 15 Carbonate sediments and rock classification and description I (*chp. 6).
Nov. 22 Carbonate sediments and rock classification and description II (*chps. 6 & 11).
Nov. 29 Introduction to sedimentary petrography: carbonate rock diagenesis (*chp. 6).
Dec. 6 Clastic rock diagenesis (*chp. 5).
Dec. 13 Final Lecture Exam.

* Refers to chapters and pages in: Boggs, S., Jr., 2006, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 4th ed.: Prentice Hall.

 

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