Study Resources

Lab suggestions

The geologic time scale

Useful links

Videos of sedimentary transport mechanisms in action (Paul Heller, U Wyoming)
Movies of how bedforms produce the sedimentary structures we see in outcrop (USGS)
An online guide to sequence strat (Steve Holland, U Georgia)
The Folk version of sedimentary petrology and classification (UT Austin)

A long list of field camps

Geological Society of America, Sedimentary Geology Divison
American Geophysical Union
SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
International Commission on Stratigraphy

Useful figures

Grain size scale

Dott sandstone classification:

Folk carbonate classification:

Dunham carbonate classification:

Evaporite sequence:

Classification of plutonic (think source) rocks:

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