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Mar 10, 2025
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GEOL 4510 - Diagenesis
Critical view of diagenetic principles using numerous examples. Many topics are selected from recent journal articles. Students read, present, and discuss current literature, as well as writing a term paper.
Requisites: GEOL 3500
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Be conversant with the different types of cements (e.g. carbonate, silica, phosphate, clay, and iron) in sedimentary rocks.
- Comprehend the essential redox changes that take place from the surface downward into the sediment pile in modern settings. Apply that progression to interpretation of the ancient record.
- Comprehend the transformations that take place as calcite and/or aragonite sediment undergoes progressive stages of alteration to calcite and/or dolomite.
- Know how to recognize and interpret evidence for compaction and cementation in sediments as they lithify.
- Know the different styles of and controls on silica cementation.
- Understand the essential controls on the development and evolution of porosity and permeability in sedimentary rocks.
- Understand the process of phosphogenesis.
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