EES 3031 – Field Study in Paleontology

This half-semester (7-week) course is one of the EES Department’s Field Course modules, offering exploration of paleontological and sedimentological resources locally accessible to the Philadelphia area. Classroom lectures and laboratory activities on regional geology, stratigraphy, and paleofaunas are interspersed with local field modules where students will learn and refine skills in lithologic description and stratigraphic mapping as well as basic paleontological field excavation and data collection techniques.