JDM 605E - Clastic Depositional Environ.

Course Objectives

Understanding the control mechanisms that govern detritic sedimentary systems
- Interpretation of depositional environments using facies models
- Basinward correlation of sedimentary systems
- Sequence stratigraphic applications

Course Description

Facies characteristics, facies model concepts, sedimentary environments. Fluvial, alluvial
fan, fan-delta and deltaic systems, eolian, glacial, lacustrine, lagoonal and tidal flat
depositional environments, beach, storm and tsunami deposits, shelf clastics. principles of
sequence stratigraphy.