GEOL243-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011

Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2011

Description

This course focuses on modern sedimentary environments, oceanography and marine organisms as a key to interpreting geological history, and the techniques and approaches that allow geologist to deal with geological time. The fundamental underpinning is stratigraphy, and using sedimentary features and fossils as palaeoenvironment indicators, with particular attention paid to New Zealand’s geological development.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students successfully completing this course will:
  • have developed an understanding of sedimentary processes occurring at the surface of the Earth.
  • be able to classify and identify common sedimentary rocks in both hand specimen and under the microscope.  
  • be able to use sedimentary and biofacies analysis to interpret ancient environments and to reconstruct palaeogeography.
  • be able to construct and correlate stratigraphic columns from a variety of data.
  • be able to recognise and utilise important fossil groups used in NZ stratigraphy and environmental interpretation.
  • understand the development of the New Zealand biota.

Prerequisites

GEOL111 and GEOL112. With a B+ average, or
a standard acceptable to the HOD, GEOL113 may be substituted for GEOL112.

Restrictions

GEOL234, GEOL235

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Kari Bassett

Lecturers

Catherine Reid and Stefan Winkler

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Laboratory assessment #1 20% Laboratory assessment #1 (Kari Bassett)
Laboratory assessment #2 20% Laboratory assessment #2 (weeks 7, 8, 9, 10) 5% each (Catherine Reid)
Laboratory assessment #3 10% Laboratory assessment #3 Stefan Winkler
Final examination 50% Final examination

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Boggs, Sam; Principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy ; 4th ed; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

Prothero, Donald R; Bringing fossils to life : an introduction to paleobiology ; 2nd ed; McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2004.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $690.00

International fee $3,225.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 30 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Geological Sciences .

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