Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
GEO/02 (STRATIGRAPHIC AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL GEOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Course
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2022 - 10/06/2022)
Lesson hours
54 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
The students must held the course Introduction to Geology before attending Geologia 1.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to teach how to describe, classify and interpret sedimentary rocks in term of genetic processes and environments. In addition, it aims to teach the basic concepts about sediment textures, production, transport and sedimentation, and the main tracts of depositional facies linked to different depositional environments. At the end the student is expected to know how to write a technical report on a sedimentary sequence of a thin section of a sedimentary rock.
Course contents
The course is focussed on the following main topics.
Sedimentary basins. Sedimentary structures and their meaning. Weathering and origin of clastic sediments.
Transport and depositional processes of sediments. Depositional environments and facies models: deserts, lakes,
periglacial, rivers, deltas, beaches, tida lflats, shelf, slope, deep marine sediments (tubidites, countourites,
hemipelagic and pelagic muds).
Teaching methods
The course is made by lectures, laboratory work and field work.
Reccomended or required readings
Nichols G. (1999) – Sedimentology and stratigraphy. Blackwell, 355 pp.
Ricci Lucchi F. (1980) Sedimentologia. Edizioni CLUEB, Bologna, 3 volumi, 993 pp
Assessment methods
The course ends with a practical examination devoted to analyze and classify a thin section under the optical microscope, and an oral examination starting with the analysis of several rock samples and their interpretation.
Further information
Slides used for lectures are provided through the KIRO web site.
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