66409 Surficial Processes and Products

6cp

Formation of soil and its characteristics. Soil classification and distribution in Australia. Biota of Australian soils and their role in the ecosystem function. Plant/soil interactions. Soil function in ecosystem determination and structure. Fundamentals of sedimentary materials and their classification. Hydrodynamics and the processes of sediment transport and deposition. Sediments as substrates: sediment/biota interactions and their function in palaeoecological reconstructions. Process/response sedimentary models and the sedimentology of the principal depositional environments including fluvial, marginal and marine systems.

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