Online Courses Handbook 2003

10250 (v.5) WASM Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 214

Area:	WASM Mining Geology Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11317 (v.3) WASM Mining Geology 112 or any previous version
Morphology, classification, evolution and paleontology of the main invertebrate and plant fossil groups. Paleontology in stratigraphy on a world wide basis. The stratigraphic record and stratigraphic nomenclature. Principles of stratigraphic correlation -transgressions and regressions. Stratigraphic principles applied to basin analysis. A review of sedimentary basins in Australia.