Modern and ancient sedimentary environments- rivers, lakes, eolian, glaciers, shallow seas, delta, estuaries and deep marine, interpreting ancient depositional environments- concept of facies, paleocurrents and provenance. Processes of sediment transport and sedimentary structures. Post-depositional sedimentary processes- clastic and carbonate diagenesis, Stratigraphy- concepts and lithostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and sea level changes. Sedimentary basins- classifications, introduction to basin analysis.