Geol.812 MARINE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS (3 CH)
Terrigenous shelves and shallow seas, controlling factors in shelf sedimentation, shelf processes, shelf sedimentation, ancient terrigenous shelf deposits, the continental slope and rise systems, turbidites and submarine fans, pelagic & hemipelagic environments, carbonate sediments and biota, siliceous sediment and biota.
Books Recommended:- Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy by Reading, H.G., 1996. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Ancient Sedimentary Environments by Selley, R.C., 1985. 3rd edition, Champan and Hall Ltd., London.
- Recognition of Ancient Sedimentary Environments by Rigby, J.K. and Hamblin, W.M.K., 1972. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists special publication No.16.
- Principles of Sedimentary Basin Analysis by Miall, A.D., 1984. Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc.