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Sedimentary Geology
Art: US Army, US Weather map from 1872, 1872 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. David Mohrig
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 10 other files · 6 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 12.110 · Spring 2007 · Study here
- 12.110 · Fall 2004 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.110 Sedimentary Geology, Fall 2004, Prof. David Mohrig — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 22 items is confirmed. No assignments or exams were found for this course, so it stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
8 files
Labs
Other materials from this course
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- Sandstone with oscillatory ripples produced in a wave dominated system Open ↗
- Teredo borings in miocene boundstone limestone Open ↗
- Chemically Weathered Surface of Basalt Open ↗
- Quartz Arenite Open ↗
- Fossiliferous limestone bound together by fine grained carbonate cement where cement is weathering… Open ↗
- Bryozoan Limestone Open ↗
- Chemically weathered marble where weathering is preferentially occuring in cement Open ↗
- Quartz Arenite Open ↗
- Shell Limestone with fine laminations suggesting low current velocities Open ↗
- Framework Conglomerate Open ↗
- Mudstone Open ↗
- Well rounded and smooth cobbles from Massachusetts beach Open ↗
- Cross-laminated limestone Open ↗
- Three Samples with Differential Weathering occuring along fine grained component of rock Open ↗
- Framework Conglomerate Open ↗
- Sample with Differential Weathering occuring along fine grained component of rock Open ↗
- Coral Limestone Open ↗
- Matrix-supported conglomerate Open ↗
- Iron concretions that formed around plant roots in reducing conditions Open ↗
- Crystalline limestone Open ↗
- Matrix-supported conglomerate Open ↗
- Sandstone with preserved tool marks Open ↗
- Quartizite polished by impacting fine wind blown sand Open ↗
- Crystalline limestone Open ↗
- Sandstone with preserved flute marks Open ↗
- Chemically weathered obsidian glass with end result of weathering being whitish mineral perlite Open ↗
- Crystalline limestone Open ↗
- Sand/mudstone with preserved convoluted bedding indicating rapid loading of beds Open ↗
- Loesskinder Pleistocene Loess Open ↗
- Foraminiferal chalk Open ↗
- Obsidian tuff with outer weathered rind Open ↗
- Framework Breccia Open ↗
- Packstone Open ↗
- Modern Coquina limestone Open ↗
- Grainstone Open ↗
- Framework Breccia Open ↗
- Bivalve Limestone Open ↗
- Framework Breccia Open ↗
- Diabase with heavy chemical weathering producing outer rind Open ↗
- Boundstone Open ↗
- Concretion nodules formed in shales and initiated from a point source Open ↗
- Framework Breccia Open ↗
- Framework Breccia Open ↗
- Boundstone Open ↗
- Concretion nodules formed in shales and initiated from a point source Open ↗
- Immature with regard to physical and chemical weathering Beach sand with heavy Biological… Open ↗
- Coral Limestone Open ↗
- Framework Breccia Open ↗
- Mudstone Open ↗
- Mudstone Open ↗
- Semi-angular river pebbles Open ↗
- Angular weathering immature pebbles Open ↗
- Oolitic Limestone Open ↗
- Soft-rock deformation with preserved dewatering pipes from compaction of gray silt Open ↗
- Packstone Open ↗
- Sediment Dredgings from 75m depth including heavy biological component Open ↗
- Fining upwards sequence in recent tuff indicating decreasing transport conditions through time Open ↗
- Feldsparic Arenite Open ↗
- Well Sorted Mature quartz beach sand Open ↗
- Crinoidal Limestone Open ↗
- Chemically Weathered Granite Sand, Very Mature Open ↗
- Lithic Wacke Open ↗
- Wackestone Open ↗
- Lithic Wacke Open ↗
- Fine Laminated Limestone Open ↗
- Well Sorted and very rounded ooid sand Open ↗
- Preserved Trace Fossils on top of ripple crest Open ↗
- Medium Sorted sand from North Loop River Nebraska Open ↗
- Matrix-supported Conglomerate Open ↗
- Poorly Sorted Sand and Pebbles that are very angular from North Loop River, Nebraska Open ↗
- Matrix-supported Conglomerate Open ↗
- Chemically Immature Olivine Beach Medium Angular Sand Open ↗
- Chemically Immature Bauxite Open ↗
- Sandstone Open ↗
- Protolith Rock and Weathered residual angular sand Open ↗
- Sandstone Open ↗
- Framework conglomerate Open ↗
- Poorly Sorted Pebbles from North Loop River, Nebraska Open ↗
- Framework conglomerate Open ↗
- Pele's Hair Sediment - Rapidly cooled volcanic glass blown out of Hawain volcano Open ↗
- Framework conglomerate Open ↗
- Loess Sediment from Eastern Washington Open ↗
- Loess Sediment from Eastern Washington Open ↗
- Sandstone bored through by bivalves Open ↗
- Heavily Chemically weathered basalt sediment, poorly sorted sand Open ↗
- Sandstone bored through by bivalves Open ↗
- Eolian Sandstone with very good sorting of coarse material and fine material in separated layers Open ↗
- Water transported poorly sorted medium sand from North Loop River, Nebraska Open ↗
- Eolian Sandstone with very good sorting of coarse material and fine material in separated layers Open ↗
- Basalt Sediement Blown from cinder cone volcano, chemically and physically immature Open ↗
- Sandstone with unidirectional ripples preserved that are ~ 5 cm high Open ↗
- Very smooth, rounded Pebbles from Lakeshore Open ↗
- Wind Blown Volcanic ash Open ↗
- Claystone Open ↗
- Feldsparic Arenite Open ↗
- Immature with regard to physical and chemical weathering Beach sand with heavy Biological… Open ↗
- Well Sorted Quatz Beach Sand Open ↗
- Feldsparic Arenite Open ↗
- Very well sorted sand from eolian beach dunes Open ↗
- Claystone Open ↗
- Rippled Sandstone with vertical borings through sample Open ↗
- Rippled Sandstone with vertical borings through sample Open ↗
- Matrix-supported conglomerate Open ↗
- Preserved casts of mudcracks Open ↗
- Framework Conglomerate Open ↗
- Mudstone Open ↗
- Preserved raindrop indentations in sandstone Open ↗
- Preserved raindrop indentations in sandstone Open ↗
- Bimodal transport directions preserved in ripples in sandstone Open ↗
- Bimodal transport directions preserved in ripples in sandstone Open ↗
- Preserved Hummocky cross-stratification Open ↗
- Preserved Hummocky cross-stratification Open ↗
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Sediment Production
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Lecture 3: Conservation of Mass and Momentum
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Lecture 4: Sediment → Deposit → Rock
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Lecture 5: Bedforms
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Lecture 6: Sedimentary Structures
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Lecture 7: Depositional Environments and Facies Models
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Lecture 8: Alluvial Fans
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Lecture 9: Rivers
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Lecture 10: Deltas
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Lecture 11: Eolian Systems
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Lecture 12: Shorelines and Nearshore
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Lecture 13: Continental Shelf
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Lecture 14: Shelf-Continental Slope
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Lecture 15: Continental Slope-Deep Ocean
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Lecture 16: Carbonates - An Overview
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Lecture 17: Shallow Marine Carbonates
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Lecture 18: Reefs (Guest Lecturer)
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Lecture 19: Stratigraphic Processes: Controls on Position of the Shoreline
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Lecture 20: Stratigraphic Incompleteness: Litho-, Bio-, and Chrono-Stratigraphy
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Lecture 21: Internal versus Externally Generated Signals in Stratigraphy
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Lecture 22: Interpreting Basin-scale Stratigraphy
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. David Mohrig, 12.110 Sedimentary Geology, Fall 2004.
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