中國文化大學互動學習平台

本課程注重自板塊運動學興起後，結合沈積學，地層學、地球物理學、地球化學與古生物學的觀念所發展出的新方法這些方法包括：磁地層、震測地層、層序地層、同位素地層(化學地層)。另外利用重大地質事件與絕對定年法衍生的：事件地層、週期地層，乃於許多不同的地層對比方法論 如：生態地層學、構造地層學、土壤地層學與計量地層學等地層學新的分支學門均涵蓋在內。至於傳統的地層學研究方法：岩石地層、生物地層及時間地層等亦包含在本課程範圍內。

Our concern here is not so much sedimentary processes and detailed rock properties but rather the larger-scale vertical and lateral relationships between units of sedimentary rock that are defined on the basis of lithologic or physical properties, paleontological characteristics, geophysical properties, age relationships, and geographic position and distribution.
It allows the geologist to bring together the details of sediment composition, texture, structure, and other features into an environmental and temporal synthesis from which we can interpret the broader aspects of Earth history.