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Sedimentary System

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Decks in this class (17)

Lecture 1: Introduction
What is a rock 1,
What is a mineral 2,
What is a crystal 3
7  cards
Lecture 2 - Sediment transport,
Give three examples of mass wasti...,
What three factors increase mass ...,
What is meant by the angle of rep...
21  cards
Lecture 3 - Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
What are the four types of sedime...,
Whare a siliclastic rocks compose...,
What do the classification scheme...
33  cards
Lecture 4 - Sedimentary Structures
Define bedding 1,
Define lamination 2,
What effects the type of bedforms...
26  cards
Lecture 5 - Terrrestrial Facies Models
Definition of facies 1,
Facies models explanation 2,
What are the process 3
28  cards
Lecture 6 - Evaporaties
What are evapourites 1,
What are brines 2,
What does it tell us about the cl...
19  cards
Lecture 7 - Facies Models Part II
What are aeolian desposits 1,
What is sandblasting 2,
What is sandblasting effects on p...
26  cards
Lecture 8 - Glacial Sedimentary Sequences (no cards, pretty basic gcse)
Glaciers what do they need to form 1
1  cards
Lecture 9 - Stratigraphy and Geochronology
A definitio of stratigraphy 1,
What is geochronology 2,
Explain relative dating an example 3
22  cards
Lecture 10: Shallow water carbonates Part 1
Why study shallow water carbonates 1,
What are limestomes made of 2,
What are the three types of non s...
16  cards
Lecture 11 Shallow water carbonates Part 2
Fossils are abundent inlimestone ...,
What do high diversity fossil con...,
What does low diversity fossil co...
16  cards
Lecture 12 - Diagenesis
More notes needed on the last few slides
28  cards
Lecture 13 - Deep Sea Sediments part 1
What are the dominant se sediments 1,
Look at map in lecture 13 2,
Red clay properies 3
16  cards
Lecture 14 - Deep Sea Sediments part 2
What are calcerious oozes formed ...,
What makes this calcium carbonate 2,
Properties of calcerious ooze 3
15  cards
Lecture 15 - Geochemical Cycles
0  cards
Lecture 16 The Geochemical Carbon Cycle
0  cards
Lecture 17 Evolution of the atmosphere
0  cards

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