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4.00 Credits
Fossil vertebrates, with emphasis on the origins of major groups. Systematics, biology, and biogeography of ancient vertebrates. Three class hours and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: General biology or consent of instructor. Cross-listing: BIOL 544.
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3.00 Credits
Processes that affect an organism from death until its final burial and fossilization, and utilization of this information in reconstructing ancient assemblages of organisms. Three class hours per week.
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2.00 Credits
Fossilized traces produced by animal activity, such as tracks, burrows, feeding traces, etc. Two class hours per week.
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4.00 Credits
History of the earth, with in-depth examination of paleontologic and lithologic changes of the geologic column. Emphasizes concepts of interpretation, particularly the causes of mass extinctions within the context of their accompanying sedimentologic variations. Term paper or research project report required.
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4.00 Credits
Ancient lake deposits, including their sedimentologic, paleontologic, mineralogic, geochemical, and stratigraphic characteristics. Investigates as analogs the depositional processes occurring in modern lakes. Laboratory and several extended field trips. Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced look at the geology of carbonate rocks, including petrology; depositional environments; and overview of current topics of research. Laboratory experience in the analysis of carbonate rocks and rock sequences. Field trip to an ancient carbonate sequence. Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Applies paleontologic, sedimentologic, and geochemical data and methods to interpretation of past sedimentary environments, with emphasis on organism-sediment relationships. Investigates as analogs processes, sediments, and organisms in modern depositional environments. Prerequisite: GEOL 441, GEOL 442; or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Selected topics in the history and philosophy of science, and application of these principles in analyzing contemporary scientific trends. Cross-listing: BIOL 558.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced methods and principles of sedimentology, with emphasis on analysis and interpretation of sedimentary structures and the processes that produced them. Discusses in detail sedimentary facies, depositional environments, chemogenic and biogenic sedimentation, and postdepositional diagenetic processes. Research or project paper required. Three class hours and one three-hour laboratory or field trip per week, and several extended field trips.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced methods of stratigraphy and basin analysis, including facies analysis, depositional systems, sequence stratigraphy, paleogeography, and basin modeling. Research or project paper required. Three class hours and one laboratory or field trip per week, and two extended field trips.
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