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Stratigraphy & Sedimentology Department

The Stratigraphy & Sedimentology Department teaches students to read geological history according to the principle of uniformitarianism, by reproducing Earth's sedimentary record and stratigraphy — depositional environments and the rock cycle — through sedimentary-basin modeling. Students build and interpret sedimentary-basin models in project work to reconstruct past depositional environments; by graduation, the stratigraphic and sedimentological data-analysis skills needed to interpret geological history have become a fully practiced craft.

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Field-based Curriculum · 14

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Foundational Stratigraphic Principles
Foundational Stratigraphic Principles
A course on the foundational principles of stratigraphy—superposition, original …
Nicolas Steno
Biostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
A course on the principles and practice of biostratigraphy, starting from the hi…
Albert Oppel
Sequence Stratigraphy & Chronostratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy & Chronostratigraphy
A course on sequence stratigraphy, training the organization of depositional pac…
Harry E. Wheeler
Sedimentary Facies Analysis
Sedimentary Facies Analysis
A course on sedimentary facies analysis, training the inference system from the …
Amanz Gressly
Turbidite Sedimentology
Turbidite Sedimentology
A course on turbidite sedimentology, linking the Bouma sequence with density-cur…
Arnold H. Bouma
Carbonate Sedimentology
Carbonate Sedimentology
A course on carbonate sedimentology, treating the character of carbonate grains …
Norman D. Newell
Sedimentary Diagenesis & Petrology
Sedimentary Diagenesis & Petrology
A course on sedimentary diagenesis, treating how physical and chemical changes a…
Raymond Siever
Glacial Sedimentology & Ice Age Theory
Glacial Sedimentology & Ice Age Theory
A course on glacial sedimentology and ice age theory, treating the identificatio…
James Croll
Fluvial Sedimentology
Fluvial Sedimentology
A course on fluvial sedimentology, connecting fluvial processes—flow regime, bed…
John R. L. Allen
Aeolian & Desert Sedimentology
Aeolian & Desert Sedimentology
A course on aeolian sedimentology, treating the deposits of wind—dune sands, dus…
Edwin D. McKee
Basin Analysis & Geosynclinal Theory
Basin Analysis & Geosynclinal Theory
A course on basin analysis, training the integration of subsidence, fill, and th…
Marshall Kay
Magnetostratigraphy & the Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale
Magnetostratigraphy & the Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale
A course on magnetostratigraphy, treating how sedimentary and igneous rocks reco…
Allan V. Cox
Global Stratigraphic Correlation
Global Stratigraphic Correlation
A course on global stratigraphic correlation, teaching the construction of the i…
Amadeus William Grabau
Chemostratigraphy
Chemostratigraphy
A course on chemostratigraphy, treating the correlation and dating of strata wit…
Heinrich D. Holland