STRATIGRAPHY & SEDIMENTOLGY GLY 471 FALL, 2007

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Instructor

Christopher A. McRoberts
348 Bowers Hall
voice: x2925
e-mail: mcroberts@cortland.edu

General Course Information

Course Syllabus

Important Dates:

• TBA: Full Day field Trip (van departs 8:00 AM sharp!)
• October 9 (Tuesday): First Exam

• November 13 (Tuesday): Second Exam

• December 11 (Tuesday), 8:00 AM -10:00 AM Final Exam

A listing (in pdf format) of geological equipment retailers. You need a good hand lens and hammer!

Web Questions

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Miscelaneous Handouts (in pdf format):

Folk's Sanstone Classification

Dunham's Carbonate Classification

Carbonate data sheet

Sandstone data sheet

Grainsze classification sheet

Petrographic Description of Sedimentary Rocks

Field Description of Sedimentary Rocks

Geologic Time Scale

Other Sedimentology Links

• Steven Holland's (University of Georgia) excellent website on sequence stratigraphy, system tracts, etc... with figures and text.
  
  
• Textures and structures of sedimentary rocks. Nice site by Duncan Heron at Duke University
  
  
• Oxford Brooks University's Online Enclyclopedia of Sedimentary Structures and Processes. Beta edition
  
  
• John Longshore's Petrology page. A very good site that has lots of images of rocks and minerals in thin section
  
  
• Atlas of Sedimentary Rocks. A good (albeit slow) site for sed images
  
  
• University of British Columbia's sedimentary petrology site. Excellent!
  
  
• SEPM The Society for Sedimentary Geology

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