The goals of this course are to learn to identify sedimentary rocks and minerals, and to interpret the processes and environments of their formation. The principles of sedimentology will be examined through lectures and laboratory and field exercises. This course is required for degrees in Geological Sciences and in Petroleum Engineering.
Class News
- Reef and surf videos -- updated on 11/19/2007
- Austin-area Field Trip Group Photo, Nov 11, 2007
- Inner Space Field Trip Group Photo, Nov 2007
- Photo Gallery - Port Aransas field trip, October 2007
- Week of August 27: No Lab sections this week. First Lab section meets Wednesday, Sept. 5.
- Day 1 Syllabus Handout
- Buying a hand lens
- Download lab syllabus here
- Port Aransas field trip date: October 5-7
Class Schedule
Lecture hours: MWF 1-2 PM , Jackson Geology Building (GEO) room 2.216.
Lab hours: by section, GEO 3.202
Instructors
Jay Banner,
GEO 5.210,
Office hours:
M 2:30 - 3:30pm,
F 2-3pm
on JB lecture days,
and by appointment
Brian Horton,
GEO 5.220A,
Office hours:
MW 2:00 - 3:30pm on BH lecture days,
and by appointment.
TAs
Erin Eastwood,
Carolina Gomez,
Tiffany Hedayati,
The Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas Reef Bank. Andros Island and its west-facing tidal flat environments on platform to west of the ‘Tongue’. At bottom edge (south end) of the tongue are underwater sand dunes that feed sand into the bottom of the tongue. Here at the south end it is about 4,000 feet deep. At the north end where it opens into the Atlantic Ocean it is about 7,000 feet deep. These modern carbonate-forming environments are analogs to the environments of formation of some ancient limestones. NASA Space Shuttle photo, from ESI Outreach Lecture Series CD-ROM v. 2.
The lee face of an eolian dune in Death Valley (California), showing examples of large grain flows, small grain flows, oblique wind ripples (near crest of dune), and vertebrate trace fossils (footprints along left side of photo). Pencil (15 cm) for scale.