Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FIELD COURSE: APPLIED STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Department: Earth/Environmnt/Planetary Sci

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focus on how to interpret stratigraphy and structure from outcrop and subsurface data using a field transect from the orogenic belt to the foreland basin. By the end of the class, students should be able to measure/describe stratigraphic sections, construct a structural-stratigraphic framework, interpret structural profiles and integrate paleontology.