Lab 1- Cross-bedding exercise (one sentence per question due at the start of Lab 2) You can now check Bre's answers against your own.

Lab 2- Describing sediment peels and measuring topographic profiles (strat. column exercise and profiles due Fri, April 10)

Lab 3- What to bring to lab this week (handed out in class).  Also- the assignment (due Tue, April 21 at noon, electronically)

Lab 4- The Skookumchuk Formation (due before Lab 5).  Your section drawings are now posted.

Lab 5- The Snohomish Delta field trip.

Lab 6- Working on the Lynch Cove and Gorst write up (due Mon May 11th).  Preparing for the next Whidbey trip.

Lab 7- Carbonates.  If needed, ask Jody for another assignment handout (Due before Lab 8)

Lab 8- Your 1st Oral Presentation.  Assignment.

Autobiography (Due Wed April 1; hard copy or email)

Sediment Intuition (Due Wed April 8)

Paleohydraulic Interpretation [.doc or website] (Submit online quiz by Fri April 24)

Part 1 of the Midterm due Fri May 9 at classtime. Please turn in a HARD COPY to Jody. If you need a copy of the midterm, come to JHN 322.

Part 2 of the Midterm due Fri May 22 at classtime (or at 5pm if you come to class on Fri). Please turn in a HARD COPY to Jody. If you need a copy of the midterm, come to JHN 322.

Writing Tips (for describing sections, etc)

Papers related to field trips and for your final project

Explore Washington shorelines with the Washington Coastal Atlas!

Bre's pictures from the Whidbey and Lynch Cove and Gorst trips

Whidbey fieldtrip handout from April 11th

All of your section drawings from April 11th Whidbey trip

Materials helpful for Lynch Cove and Gorst trip

Lynch Cove and Gorst field trip handout

Lynch Cove and Gorst profiles

Snohomish field trip handout

Snohomish and Whidbey2 field trip photos are here.

Snohomish data

TA: Bre MacInnes
E-mail: macinneb@u.washington.edu
Office hours: by appointment or drop in (JHN 322)
Telephone: 206-543-6686 (office)

Lecture: MWF, 1130-1220, JHN 026

Lab AA: T , 1330-1320, JHN 011

Lab AB: W, 1400-1550, JHN 011

Lecture/Lab 1: Introduction and Sed Structures

Lecture 2 and 3: Sediment Transport equations (no .ppt)

Lecture 4: Paleoecology (also available, a longer lecture on Trace Fossils (with many additional slides))

Lecture 5: Paleoseismology

Lecture 6: Whidbey Island trip prep

Lecture 7: Introduction to Walther's Law and Facies concepts

Lecture 8 and 9: Fluvial systems

Lecture 10 and 11: Tidal facies

Lecture 12: Delta facies and field trip intro

Lecture 13: Waves (no .ppt)

Lecture 14: Beach and nearshore environments

Lecture 15: Shelf sedimentation

Lecture 16: Gravity flows

Lecture 17 and 18: Turbidity currents and submarine fans

Lecture 19: Intro to Carbonates

Lecture 20: Charlotte's guest lecture on Evaporites

Lecture 21: Pelagic sedimentation (no .ppt)

Lecture 22: Lakes and Lake sedimentation (no .ppt)

Lecture 23: Alluvial fan systems

Lecture 24: Eolian deposits

Lecture 25: Marginal marine systems

Lecture 26: Meandering vs braided review

Lecture 1 notes

Sed. Structures handout

Did you lose your grain-size card?

Describing siliciclastic sedimentary rocks

Waves handout

For week 2: Trace Fossil Concepts: Ch 2 - Sedimentology and Trace Fossils (PDF - 6.6 MB)

If you want to know more about settling velocity, read Ferguson and Church, 2004