EA2800:03
Marine Sedimentary Environments
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 3 day field trip. Semester 2. Lectures video-conferenced to Cairns campus.
Staff: 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%).