TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Schedule
• Grading
• Optional texts
• General references
• Sedimentary petrography links
• Carbonate Diagenesis Help Pages

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Jan	22	Organization
	29	Clastic framework grains (PM)
Feb	5	Clastic framework grains (PM)
	12	Carbonate framework grains (DUS)
	19	Carbonate framework grains (DUS)
	26	Carbonate framework grains (DUS)
Mar	4	EXAM 1: Grains and Provenance
	11	SPRING BREAK
	18	Clastic diagenetic minerals and textures (PM)
	25	Clastic porosity and diagenetic minerals and textures (PM); Thin-section 1 handed out & descriptions discussed
April	1	Carbonate diagenetic and textures (DUS)
	8	Carbonate diagenetic and textures (DUS); Thin-section 2 handed out & descriptions discussed
	15	EXAM 2: Diagenesis & Porosity
	22	Thin-section Description 1 (clastic) due
	29	Thin-section Description 2 (carbonate) due
May	6	Revised Thin-section Descriptions due (optional)

GRADING:

Exam 1	25%
Exam 2	25%
Thin-section descriptions (2)	50%

OPTIONAL TEXTBOOKS:

Folk, R. L., 1974, Petrology of sedimentary rocks: Austin, Hemphill, 182 p.

Scholle, 1978, A color illustrated guide to carbonate rock constituents, textures, cements, and porosities: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 27, 241 p.  (Out of print, but a CD (M-27) can be ordered from AAPG.)

Scholle, 1979, A color illustrated guide to constituents, textures, cements, and porosities of sandstones and associated rocks: American Association of  Petroleum Geologists Memoir 28, 201 p.  (Out of print, but a CD (M-28) can be ordered from AAPG.)

GENERAL REFERENCES:

Adams, A. E., MacKenzie, W. S. and Guilford, C., 1984, Atlas of sedimentary rocks under the microscope: Essex, Longman Group Limited, 104 p.

Blatt, H., 1992, Sedimentary Petrology: New York, W.H. Freeman and Company, 514 p.

Boggs, S., Jr., 1992, Petrology of sedimentary rocks: New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 707 p.

MacKenzie, W. S., Donaldson, C. H. and Guilford, C., 1982, Atlas of igneous rocks and their textures: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 148 p.

Moore, R. C., Lalicker, C. G. & Fischer, A. G. (1952) Invertebrate Fossils. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 766 p.

Murray, J. W. (1985) Atlas of Invertebrate Macrofossils. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 288 p.

Pettijohn, F. J., Potter, P. E. and Siever, R., 1987, Sand and sandstone (2nd ed.): New York, Springer-Verlag, 553 p.

Scholle, P. A., Bebout, D. G. and Moore, C. H., 1983, Carbonate Depositional Environments: Tulsa, AAPG, Memoir 33, 708 p.

Scholle, P. A. and Spearing, D., 1982, Sandstone Depositional Environments: Tulsa, AAPG, Memoir 31, 410 p.

Swanson, R. G., 1981, Sample examination manual: Methods in Exploration Series, Tulsa, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Welton, J. E., 1984, SEM petrology atlas: Methods in Exploration Series, Tulsa, Oklahoma, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 237 p.

SEDIMENTARY PETROGRAPHY LINKS:

• Sedimentary geology at New Mexico Tech