EA2800:03
Marine Sedimentary Environments
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: 18 units of approved level 1 and 2 subjects
39 lectures, 3 day field trip. Second semester.
Available to Cairns campus via video link.
Staff: Dr K Woolfe, Professor R Carter.
An introduction to marine sedimentary environments with emphasis on the sedimentary processes operating around coral reefs and tropical continental shelves.
Learning Objectives:
- the physical processes that control the sedimentology of marine environments;
- likely responses of reef and sediment packages to changing sea level;
- the factors that control the distribution of reefs, beaches cays and swamps on tropical shelves.
Assessment by final examination (60%); field trip report (20%); weekly task sheet assignments (20%).
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