Week

Date

Lecture Number and Title

Reading

1

Jan 13

1.  M: Significance of Sedimentary Geology

Ch. 1

Jan 14

2.   T: Sediment transport mechanisms

Ch. 2

Jan 15

3.  W: Physical Properties of sediments, sedimentary rocks

Ch. 3

2

Jan 20

     M: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, No Classes

Jan 21

      T: Lab 1, Siliciclastic sedimentary rock classification

Handout, TBA

Jan 22

4.  W: Siliciclastic Sedimentary Rocks

Ch. 5

3

Jan 27

5.  M: Sedimentary Structures

Ch. 4

Jan 28

       T: Lab 2, Reading and Discussion (Black Shales); Sedimentary

           Structures: Identification

Handouts, TBA

Jan 29

6.  W:  Depositional systems, Facies, and Walther’s Law

Ch. 8

4

Feb  3

7.  M: Fluvial and Lacustrine Systems

Ch. 8.2, 8.4

Feb  4

      T: Lab 3, Sedimentary structures: Flume and Turbidity Currents,

           Part 1

Handouts, TBA

Feb  5

     W: Exam I

5

Feb 10

8.  M: Eolian and Deltaic Systems

Ch. 8.3, 9.1-9.2

Feb 11

      T: Lab 3, Sedimentary structures: Flume and Turbidity Currents,

          Part 2

Handouts, TBA

Feb 12

9.   W: Siliciclastic Tidal and Beach Systems

Ch. 9.3-9.6

6

Feb 17

10. M: Siliciclastic Marginal Marine Systems

Ch. 10.1-10.2

Feb 18

      T: Lab 4, Facies Model Interpretation

Handouts, TBA

Feb 19

11. W: Pelagic (Deep water) Systems

Ch. 10.3

7

Feb 24

12. M: Carbonate Sedimentary Rocks

Ch. 6

Feb 25

       T: Lab 5 Carbonate Petrology

Handouts, TBA

Feb 26

13. W: Shallow water carbonate systems

Ch. 11.1-11.5

8

Mar  3

14. M: Evaporites and evaporitic systems

Ch. 7.1-7.2; 11.6

Mar  4

15. T:  Stratigraphic Principles and units

Ch. 12.1-12.3

Mar  5

      W: Exam II

9

Mar 10

16. M: Stable Isotopes, Ice Volume, and Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy

Ch. 15.4; Apdx. B

Mar 11

      T: Lab 6, Stable Isotope and Rayleigh Distillation

Handouts, TBA

Mar 12

17. W: Lithostratigraphy; Nature of the Stratigraphic Record

Ch. 12.4-12.6

10

Mar 17

18. M: Classical Biostratigraphy

Ch. 14

Mar 18

       T: Lab 7, Biostratigraphy

Handouts, TBA

Mar 19

19. W: Quantitative Biostratigraphy

Handouts, TBA

Mar 24-30

No classes, Spring Break

11

Mar 31

20. M: Magnetostratigraphy

Ch. 13.1, 13.4; 15

Apr  1

21. T: Geologic Time and Radiometric Dating

Ch. 15

Apr  2

     W: Exam III

12

Apr  7

22. M:  Core and Wireline Logging

Handouts, TBA

Apr  8

       T:  Lab 8, Group Research on Field Guide

Handouts, TBA

Apr  9

23. W:  Seismic Stratigraphy

Ch. 13.2-13.3

13

Apr 14

24. M:  Plate Tectonics and sedimentation

Ch. 16.1-16.3

Apr 15

      T:   Lab 8, Group Research on Field Guide

Handouts, TBA

Apr 16

25. W:  Sea level change and sedimentation

Handouts, TBA

14

Apr 21

26. M:  Presentation of W. Virginia Field Guide, Part I

Handouts, TBA

Apr 22

       T: Lab 9, Reading and discussion- “More Gaps than Record” and

            “Marxist Stratigraphy and the Golden Spike”

Handouts, TBA

Apr 23

     27. W: Presentation of W. Virginia Field Guide, Part II

Handouts, TBA

Apr 25-27

Overnight weekend field trip, Southern West Virginia

15

Apr 28

28. M:  Sequence Stratigraphy – theory and application

Ch. 13.3;

Apr 29

      T: Lab 10: Reading and discussion- “Are we now living in the    

          Anthropocene?” and  "Simplifying the Stratigraphy of Time”

Handouts, TBA

Apr 30

29.  W:  Basin Analysis

Ch. 16.4-16.7

End of class sessions

16

May 8

Final Exam, McGilvrey Hall Room 234

10:15 – 12:30 p.m., May 8, 2014