GSCI 355, Fall
This elective course is an in-depth examination of sedimentary basins in terms of their tectonic context (compressive, extensional or strike-slip), sedimentary fill and sequence stratigraphy, climate controls on facies distribution and provenance, and thermal and geochemical evolution/alteration of the basin fill. This course covers these processes and their interactions, as understood from various observational data sets (sedimentary, structural, geochemical, and geophysical), as well as the quantitative forward and inverse models commonly used to extract or constrain basin history. The course has a semester-long petroleum exploration activity where students understand both the mechanics and play of petroleum systems in a specific basin and predict where oil can be extracted.
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