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May 15, 2024
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GEOL 4540 - Carbonate Depositional Systems I
Study of carbonate rocks in the modern and geologic record, including patterns and processes of sedimentation and diagenesis as well as depositional models.
Requisites: GEOL 3500
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Be able to identify the depositional environment of carbonate rocks in hand sample.
- Gain an appreciation for changes in carbonate composition through time due to biotic evolution.
- Learn the controls on carbonate sedimentation including geochemical, tectonic, diagenetic, and climatic controls.
- Learn the diagnostic criteria for differentiating the most common carbonate depositional environments including eolian, lacustrine, subaerial, beach, tidal flat, bank margin, reef, open and restricted platform, slope, and basinal environments.
- Learn to classify carbonate rocks and to identify skeletal and non-skeletal constituents of carbonate rocks.
- Learn to use hypothesis testing to evaluate depositional environments for carbonate rocks.
- Understand the primary location and style of carbonate deposition in the modern world.
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