Earth's Crust: Mtls, Proc, Dyn

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GEOL 2330: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Structural Geology for Petroleum Engineers Description: Overview of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and structural geology, emphasizing material relevant to petroleum engineers and other petroleum industry careers. Topics include: sediment types, sediment transport, deposition, diagenesis and lithification, controls on porosity and permeability; fault and fold types and classification; structural controls on sedimentary deposition; basic structural and stratigraphic traps; fault-zone structure and fluid flow; and elements of low-temperature geochronology. SLOs. By the end of this course, students will be able to describe or explain: 1) Sedimentary rocks, textures, structures and classifications; their resource potential, controls on porosity and permeability, and the geological history needed for formation of oil and gas 2) Geologic contact types, introductory structural geology, including 3D geometry of lines and planes as used in geology, basic geologic map interpretation, cross-section construction, classifications of faults and folds, architecture and development of extensional and contractional orogens, structural controls on sedimentary basins, effects of faulting on permeability and porosity 3) Processes required for existence of petroleum systems, basic types of conventional hydrocarbon traps, 4)The basis of isotopic dating methods and basics of their application.