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Introduction
Guide to Fossil Classification
Composition of Sedimentary Rocks
Describing and Naming Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Exercise 1.1. Describing Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Describing and Naming Chemical and Biochemical Sedimentary Rocks
Exercise 1.2. Describing Chemical and Biochemical Sedimentary Rocks
Exercise 1.3. Sedimentary Structures
Exercise 2.1. Introducing Depositional Environments (Pre-Lab Homework)
Depositional Environments
Exercise 2.2. Identifying Depositional Environments
Sedimentary Facies
Exercise 2.3. Introducing Sedimentary Facies
Descriptions of Depositional Environments
Sedimentary Transport Systems
Exercise 2.4. Identifying Sedimentary Facies
Exercise 2.5. Identifying Facies in Fiji
Other Features of Facies
Part I. Relative Time & Stratigraphy
Exercise 3.1. Identifying Unconformities
Exercise 3.2. Reconstructing Relative Geological Time
Part II. Interpreting Stratigraphy in a Stratigraphic Log
Exercise 3.3. Interpreting Stratigraphic Logs
Constructing Cross-Sections
General Principles and Concepts Used to Interpret Cross-Sections
Example of a Complex Correlation
Exercise 4.1. Beginner Correlation Exercise
Exercise 4.2. Intermediate Correlation Exercise
Exercise 4.3. Advanced Correlation Exercise
Core 1 Borehole Log
Core 2 Borehole Log
Core 3 Borehole Log
Core 4 Borehole Log
Starting Materials for Fossils
Types of Fossil Preservation
Exercise 5.1. Unaltered and Re-formed Preservation (Sample Set 1)
Exercise 5.2. Indirect Preservation (Sample Set 2)
Exercise 5.3. Life Habit (Sample Set 3)
Exercise 5.4. Symmetry (Sample Set 4)
Exercise 5.5. Coiling & Chambering (Sample Set 5)
Classification of Animals & Plants
Fossils of the Precambrian (4.6 BY to 542 MY)
The Ediacaran Fauna (600-542 MY)
Fossils of the Cambrian Period
Paleoecology
Fossils of the Paleozoic: Phylum Cnidaria (The Corals)
Fossils of the Paleozoic: Phylum Bryozoa (The Bryozoans)
Fossils of the Paleozoic: Phylum Brachiopoda (The Brachiopods)
Fossils of the Paleozoic: Phylum Mollusca (The Bivalves & Gastropods)
Preservation Bias in the Fossil Record
Kingdom Protista
Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda
Phylum Echinodermata
Time-Stratigraphic Correlation & Biostratigraphy
Exercise 9.1. Using Fossils for Correlation
Core 1
Core 2
Core 3
Core 4
Exercise 9.2. Final Questions
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