Faculty of Science

Objectives

To develop an understanding of the classification, composition and texture of sedimentary rocks, their depositional environments and processes by which they form, and their economic importance.

Contents

Origin, composition, textures and structures of terrigenous clastics; classification of sandstones, quartz types and origin. Relation of sandstone petrography to tectonics and sedimentation; diagenesis. Origin, composition, texture and classification of carbonates, evaporates, charts, phosphates, iron rich rocks and manganese deposits. Sedimentary depositional systems; fluvial, eolian, lacustrine, linear shoreline, deltaic, continental shelf and continntal margin and deep water basin deposits. Field and laboratory methods of the study of sedimentary rock.