Course Objectives
Course objectives:
- Provide students with the basic knowledge of formation of sedimentary rock packages, their relations and nomenclature.
- Teach students how to seek information about stratigraphic data and their classification into meaningful categories.
- Teach students recognition of fundamental sedimentary rock packages and their lateral and vertical relations in the field.
- Teach students how to combine stratigraphic data to see and interpret the natural processes as a whole.
- Create opportunity for students to work on a stratigraphic problem by himself/herself in order to increase his/her confidence in approaching geological problems.