Course Overview

This lecture provides basic knowledge for sedimentology and paleontology and historical geology. Main purposes are to learn interrelationship between life and environment of geological time.

Learning Achievement

The purpose of this course is to understand basic concepts of sedimentology and stratigraphy as well as interrelationships between life and its surrounding environments in a geologic time scale.

Competence

Knowledge in Earth Sciences, Ability to think logically

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Short exams (100%)

Course schedule

This lecture provides basic concepts of sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology and historical geology. The first five lectures focus on sedimentology and stratigraphy and the latter five lectures focus on the brief history of Earth with evolution of organisms.

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Tanaka Kohei,Kamata Yoshihito,Fujino Shigehiro

Other information

Lectures are done in English.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university