Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where sedimentary rocks are deposited. Download a chart to use in class and an activity for practicing with these concepts: ...

Chu-Sarysu is the world’s “third-largest” sedimentary copper basin behind the central African Copperbelt and ... tonnes of copper annually. The US Geological Survey estimates there is ...

Sedimentology explores the origin, transport, deposition and diagenetic alterations of the materials that compose sediments and sedimentary ... geology, Earth history, geochronology, thermochronology, ...