39 hours lectures, 16 hours field work and workshop. Semester 2. Lectures video-conferenced to Cairns campus.
Staff:
Dr R Wüst,
Dr P Hearty.
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%).
