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Geological Sciences157GEO 582 Advanced Stratigraphy. Three hours.Examines stratigraphic nomenclature, principles, and concepts. Lithostratigraphy, biostratig ra phy, allostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, and geochronology are studied. Of feredaccording to demand. Mancini.GEO 590 Seminar in Regional Geology. One hour.Prerequisites: GEO 314, GEO 365, and GEO 367.Literature and fi eld study <strong>of</strong> the geology <strong>of</strong> selected areas. Offered ac cord ing todemand.GEO 598 Research Not Related to <strong>The</strong>sis. Variable credit. Offered according tode mand.GEO 599 <strong>The</strong>sis Research. Variable credit. Offered according to demand.GEO 607 Introduction to Groundwater Modeling. Three hours.Prerequisites: GEO 506, MATH 253, and CS 226; or permission <strong>of</strong> the instructor.Introduction to the theory and application <strong>of</strong> groundwater modeling. Offered springsemester. Zheng.GEO 608 Contaminant Hydrogeology and Modeling. Three hours.Prerequisite: GEO 607 or per mis sion <strong>of</strong> the instructor.Introduction to con cepts and models in contaminant hydrogeology. Offered fall semester.Zheng.GEO 610 Fluvial Geomorphology. Three hours.Analysis <strong>of</strong> fl uvial processes, channel morphology, and channel responses. Emphasis onfl ow hydraulics, sediment transport, depositional mechanics, geo mor phic effectiveness,and channel form adjustment. Offered fall semester.GEO 626 Advanced Top ics in Geology. Variable credit.Advanced topics in the following areas: economic geology, geochemistry, geo hy drol o gy,geo phys ics, geo mor phol o gy, mineralogy, pa le on tol o gy, petrology, sed i men ta tion, stratigra phy, struc tur al geology, and tectonics. Offered ac cord ing to demand.GEO 634 Seminar in Tectonics. One hour.Prerequisite: Permission <strong>of</strong> the instructor.Discussion <strong>of</strong> current research in tectonics and related subjects. May be repeated forcredit. Offered fall and spring se mes ters.GEO 635:636 <strong>Graduate</strong> Seminar in Geology. One hour.Oral presentations on current geological topics. Offered fall and spring semesters.GEO 650 Isotope Geology. Three hours.Prerequisites: GEO 514 and GEO 515, or permission <strong>of</strong> the instructor.Principles <strong>of</strong> stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry, and applications to economicgeology, geochronology, petrology, tectonics, and hydrology/hydrogeology. Offered according to de mand. Stowell,GEO 652 Isotope Hydrology. Three hours.Prerequisite: GEO 570.Study <strong>of</strong> the dis tri bu tion, production, and usage <strong>of</strong> naturally occurring and anthropogenicallyintroduced stable and radioactive isotopes in the earth’s surfi cial environment. Emphasiswill be placed on the application <strong>of</strong> isotopes in solving hydrologic and geomorphicproblems. Offered according to demand.GEO 663 Structural Geology Seminar. Three hours.Prerequisite: GEO 564, GEO 565, or permission <strong>of</strong> the instructor.Topics in quantitative structural geology. Offered according to demand. May be repeatedfor credit. Groshong.GEO 669 Carbonate Depositional Environments. Three hours.Prerequisite: GEO 512 or permission <strong>of</strong> the instructor.Study <strong>of</strong> modern and ancient carbonate depositional systems, with emphasis on faciesanalysis and depositional modeling.GEO 673 Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry. Three hours.Prerequisite: GEO 570.Advanced treat ment <strong>of</strong> the topics <strong>of</strong> low-temperature aqueous geochemistry importantfor understanding inorganic processes controlling the chemical quality <strong>of</strong> surface andsubsurface waters. Emphasis is on solving problems in environmental geochemistry.Offered al ter nate spring se mes ters. Donahoe.

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