Week by Week Outlines

Outlines and Overheads for Lectures and Practical Classes

Week 1 Flow regime Introduction to methods in sedimentary environment analysis Terrigenous Clastics Text: Folk, R.L., 1980. Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks	Week 2 Alluvial fans Rivers	Week 3 Deltas Linear Clastic shorelines	Week 4 Sedimentation on the continental shelf Carbonates 1
Week 5 Carbonates 2 Sedimentation on the continental slope and rise	Week 6 Deep water sedimentary environments Glacial and periglacial depositional environments	Week 7 Ocean Crust: Structure and Composition 1 - Ophiolites as past oceanic crust Ocean Crust: Structure and Composition 2 - Mid ocean ridge magmatism as new oceanic crust	Week 8 Types of Oceanic Volcanoes: Composition and structure 1 - Sub-aqueous volcanism Types of Oceanic Volcanoes: Composition and structure 2 - Ocean island volcanoes: relationship to tectonics
Week 9 Continental Volcanism: Magma composition and products 1 - Products of silicic volcanism Continental Volcanism: Magma composition and products 2 - Controls on magma composition	Week 10 Continental Plutonism: Where, when and why do granites form? 1 - Granite types: distribution in space and time Continental Plutonism: Where, when and why do granites form? 2 - How and where are granite magmas emplaced?	Week 11 Where and why do rocks become metamorphosed? 1 - The conditions of metamorphism Where and why do rocks become metamorphosed? 2 - Absolute age determinations, methods and limitations	Week 12 Ore deposits concentrated by surface processes Metallic ore deposits: how and where do they form? 1 - Formation of magmatic and hydrothermal ores
Week 13 Metallic ore deposits: how and where do they form? 2 Revision

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Author: Kelsie Dadd
Date: 8/3/99
Revised: 23/3/99