UC Davis Geology Winter Quarter, 2011

Instructor: Dawn Sumner e-mail: dysumner@ucdavis.edu Phone: 752-5353 Office: 3111 Earth and Physical Sciences Building Class homework assignments and labs now on SmartSite rather than on this web page.

Study Resources

• Photo library of sedimentary structures and environments (very useful; I recommend refering to these photos when reading the text.)
• Lecture Notes for 2011 and later: http://dawnssedstrat.blogspot.com/
• Lecutre Notes from 2006-2010
• Old Tests including some answer keys for midterms
• Great Websites (on a http://del.icio.us web site)

Video Play Lists on YouTube:

• Basic Sed Strat Concepts
• Fluid Dynamics: Turbulent and Laminar Flow
• Sediment Transport
• Cross Stratification
• Facies and Stratigraphic Concepts
  
• Beaches and Marine Environments
• Rivers and Deltas
• Eolian Sand Dunes
• Carbonates
• Subsurface Geology

Lecture Summary Videos from 2007: (These are also available in the YouTube playlists)

• Uniformitarianism, Horizontality, and Younger over Older (22 MB iPod Video)
• Walther's Law (29 MB iPod Video)
• Turbulent and Laminar Flow (20 MB iPod Video)
• Bedload Transport (23 MB iPod Video)
• Ripple/Dune Cross Stratification (27 MB iPod Video)
• Facies (25 MB iPod Video)
• Turbidites (26 MB iPod Video)
• Chrono and Lithostratigraphy (34 MB iPod Video)
• Meandering Rivers (35 MB iPod Video)
• Waves and Storms (33 MB iPod Video)
• Tidal Processes (29 MB iPod Video)
• Deltas (28 MB iPod Video)

UCD Geology Department