EA3300:03
Sedimentary Geology and Fossil Fuels
Townsville
Prerequisites: EA2100
25 lectures, 39 hours practicals, 16 hours field work. Second semester.
Staff: Dr K Woolfe, Professor R Carter, Professor R Henderson, Dr P Crosdale.
Documentation and interpretation of lithologies, facies and sequences, with an emphasis on non-marine systems; the occurrence, nature and uses of fossil fuels; two day sedimentary facies field trip to Collinsville or alternative.
Learning Objectives:
- to teach processes of deposition in the main sedimentary depositional systems and formation of the resulting sequences and the origins of fossil fuels;
- to provide training in basic techniques of sediment logging, description and facies analysis and report preparation;
- to encourage the development of scientific thinking in solving problems in sedimentary geology.
Assessment by a three-hour written examination (50%); practical assignments and field work (50%).
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