GEOL 3032 Lecture : 3032 Week1
Document Summary
Howe russell e307, office hours tuesday 10:30-11:30 or by appointment. Text: boggs 2011, principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy. American geological institute dictionary of geological terms (google it by this name) Overall view of the geologic processes and products associated with sediment production, transport, and deposition in a range of geologic settings. Physical (what is this, where does it happen?) Chemical (what is this, where does it happen?) Rock cycle: subaerial weathering processes, physical weathering. Insolation (sun) weathering: freeze-thaw (frost) weathering, salt weathering, wetting and drying, stress-release weathering, other: exfoliation, spheroidal weathering. Physical weathering: making big rocks into small ones: freeze-thaw (frost) weathering. Insolation (sun) weathering (perhaps not that important: types of physical weathering, salt weathering, wetting and drying, stress-release weathering, other: exfoliation, spheroidal weathering. Seacliffs here are very subject to such action. As overlying rock is eroded and unloaded, stress is released by the opening of fractures.
