NOTE: Course content may vary by year.

Module 1: Reading Geological Time

1. Introduction and basic concepts
2. Reading Earth History – Stratigraphy
3. Sedimentary Facies – shifting environments of deposition
4. Reading Earth History – Biostratigraphy & Correlation
5. Geochronology – radiometric stating, stable isotopes and magnetostratigraphy
6. Sequence Stratigraphy – Sedimentary environments and sea level change

Module 2: Paleontology

1. Introduction to Macropaleontology
2. Sessile Benthics (e.g. Sponges, Corals)
3. Reef Evolution
4. Graptolites and Trilobites
5. Brachiopods
6. Bivalves
7. Cephalopods (including Ammonites)
8. Micropaleontology

Labs

1. Sedimentary processes 1
2. Sedimentary processes 2
3. Biochronology
4. Geochronology 1
5. Geochronology 2
6. Fossilization and Taphonomy
7. Sessile Benthics
8. Graptolites and Trilobites
9. Brachiopods / Bivalves / Cephalopods