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SEDIMENTOLOGY
SEDIMENTOLOGY (01:460:340:xx) Fall 2008
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| Place: | Room 239A, Wright Labs |
| Instructor: |
Dr. Ashley gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu |
| Office: |
WL-239A
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| Office hours: |
or by appointment |
| Department Office: | 250 Wright-Rieman Labs (Busch) |
| Administrative Assistant | Jovani Reaves
Tel: 732 445-2044 |
| Text: | Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, (Boggs) 2001, 4th ed.
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| Grading: | 35% Lab, 40% Hour Exams, 25% Final Exam (not accumulative) |
| Lab Grading: |
| 2 required field trips (15%); 3 quizzes (30%); 11 lab exercises (5%each, total=55%) |
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| Departmental policy: | "No make-up exams will be given without written documentation from a Rutgers University official." |
Syllabus
| Class # | | Topic | Suggested
readings
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| 1 | | Introduction
Weathering | 3-12
12-20 |
| 2 | | Fluid Dyanmics |
21-27 |
| 3 | | Fluid Dyanmics | 28-36 |
| 4 | | Sediment Dynamics |
36-47 |
| 5 | | Grain Size |
50-64 |
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Shape |
65-74 |
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Bedding |
74-87 |
| 8 | |
Bedforms (Monteverde) |
74-87 |
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| HOUR EXAM I |
1-87 |
| 9 |
| Sedimentary Structures |
87-115 |
| 10 |
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Biostructures, Composition |
119-145 |
| 11 |
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Classification, Diagen. (Feibel) |
145-158 |
| 12 |
| Groundwater |
handout |
| 13 |
| Facies Models & Fluvial |
242-258 |
| 14 |
| Deserts and Lakes |
258-275 |
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Glacial (Schaller) | 276-287 |
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HOUR EXAM II |
87-158/242-287 |
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Coastal-deltas (Browning) |
289-306 |
| 17 | | Coastal-barriers, estuaries
Coastal-lagoons, tidal flats |
306-322
322-333 |
| 18 | | Evaporites |
197-206 |
| 19 | | Fossil Fuels Kulpecz |
229-239 |
| 20 | |
Thanksgiving |
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| 21 | | Chert,iron,phosphate
Carbonates |
206-229
159-170 |
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Sea Level rise (Miller) |
170-183 |
| 23 | | Carbonates |
184-190 |
| 24 | | Carbonates |
190-196 |
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FINAL EXAM |
159-239/289-333 |
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