Advanced Recent Sediments -GEO 536

The objective of this course is to give the postgraduate student an over view about weathering and erosion and their types as well as their controlling factors. Also, the different methods of how to calculate and estimate the rate of sedimentation in different sedimentary environments. Role of diagenesis of sediments to sedimentary rocks. The characteristics of recent sediments in different sedimentary environments and their primary sedimentary structure