Sedimentary Environments: Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, the student should:
- Understand how a knowledge of modern sedimentary environments helps geologists to reconstruct the geology of the past and interpret life of the past.
- Know how soils form and how geologists interpret ancient buried soils.
- Be able to describe the characteristic sedimentary features of a freshwater lake environment.
- Understand the erosion and depositional features of a glacial environment.
- Know the difference between exterior drainage and interior drainage.
- Know the kinds of sedimentary features found in deserts and arid basins.
- Understand the basic dynamics of sand dune formation.
- Be able to describe alluvial fan and braided-stream deposits.
- Understand the dynamics of meandering rivers and the resulting sedimentary features associated with them.
- Know what Walther's law is.
- Know how deltas form and grow and be able to describe the structure of a delta.
- Understand the elements of a barrier reef-lagoon complex and the types of sediment found in these systems.
- Understand how fossils help geologists to recognize ancient marine sedimentary environments.
- Know the various types of organic reefs, their features, and how they are formed.
- Be able to describe what a carbonate platform is.
- Be able to describe how stromatolites form.
- Understand the importance of turbidity currents and be able to describe how turbidites form.
- Know the various types of pelagic sediment and how they are deposited.
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