The objective of this course is to give the postgraduate student an over view about weathering and erosion and their types as well as their controlling factors. Also, the different methods of how to calculate and estimate the rate of sedimentation in different sedimentary environments. Role of diagenesis of sediments to sedimentary rocks. The characteristics of recent sediments in different sedimentary environments and their primary sedimentary structure

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This Course is intended to provide some advice to the student on how to write good reports or topics on different aspects of geology.
- Demonstrate the ability to present scientific materials.

Introduction in paleoecology – Principle environments – Diversity – Marine ecosystem – Environments index from the preservation- Homology – Structure index – Sedimentary index - General shape of organisms – Geographical distribution – Reef association – Substratum association - Earth association – Microfacies – Taphonomy – Fossils association – Evolution and fossil records - Extinction – Rate of evolution and extinction - Phyletic extinction – Mass mortal - Evolution and extinction modeling - Comparison between paleontology and neontology - Determination of geographical distribution.