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Description
This is a field-based module, which centres on how understanding evidence from a range of contemporary sedimentary and depositional environments is needed to contextualise a landscape. The module focuses on obtaining, describing, analysing, and interpreting sedimentary and depositional environments and sequences to understand past environmental change, over different timescales over the Holocene, and the drivers of change. The module examines the value of different sediment classifications, biological indicators, and stratigraphic signatures to interpret past environments and depositional processes and explain the nature of environmental transitions and shifts that are driven by globally-relevant forcing such as climate change, sea-level change, and human interventions and modifications over timescales of centuries to millennia. We visit a range of coastal, freshwater, and terrestrial environments and explore the evidence for change from recent histories to millennial-scale transitions.
Please note that the cost of the field class to students will be in the region of 拢600.
If student numbers on the module fall below 10 the module may not run.
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Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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