Academic year2016/17
CourseGEOSCIENCES AND GEOTECHNOLOGIES
Code139DD
Credits6
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| SEDIMENTOLOGIA | GEO/02 | LEZIONI | 64 | |
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Knowledge
The student who successfully completes the course will be able to demonstrate:
-a solid knowledge of the sedimentary processes occurring in both marine and continental depositional environments;
-the ability to describe and interpreted the stratigraphic successions both in outcrops and in subsurface through the analysis of continuous drilled cores;
-the ability to reconstruct the space-time evolution of the depositional environments recorded in the sedimentary successions;
- gain a complete knowledge of technical language ;
- ability to summarized the field work in a concise report;
- aptitude to a team work
- the ability to apply these knowledge to the professional world.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
The student must be able to demonstrate his/her knowledge of the course material and be able to discuss the reading matter thoughtfully and with propriety of expression.
A key point for the evaluation will be represented by the demonstration of the full understanding of the scientific method; correct acquisition of data, ability to get coherent interpretations and above all the ability to have definitely internalized the distinction between data and interpretation.
Methods:
- Final oral exam
- Written report
Further information:
Final oral exame and written field trip report : 50%
Filed trip attendance 30%
Participation to lectures and to discussions 20%
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- preparation of oral/written report
- participation in discussions
- individual study
- group work
- Bibliography search
- Practical
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
- Lectures
- Seminar
- project work
Syllabus
The application fields of sedimentology: introduction.
The physical background of the sedimentary processes: general concept.
Stratification produced by: i) unidirectional and bidirectional flows and by wave motion, ii) alternation between tractive and fall out processes; iii) Mass flow deposits.
The concept of facies and the Whalter law. Dynamic of sedimentary processes and their driven factors: eustatism and tectonic; the concept of relative sea level change. Interplay among sedimentary supply, accommodation, and relative sea level changes. Resulting depositional architecture: aggradational, progradational, retrogradational.
Continental and marine depositional systems: facies and depositional architecture. The concept of depositional sequence.
Bibliography
The power point slides are the recommended material of study.
The following books constitute the reference to deepen specific topics.
-Reading H.G. (1996): Sedimentary environments. Blackwell, London, pp. 688.
- Emery D., Myers K. (1996): Sequence stratigraphy. Blackwell, London, pp. 304.
- Ricci Lucchi F. (1992): Sedimentografia. Atlante fotografico delle strutture e dei
sedimenti. Zanichelli, Bologna, pp. 250.
- Bosellini A., Mutti E., Ricci Lucchi F. (1989): Rocce e successioni sedimentarie. UTET,
pp. 395.
- Ricci Lucchi F. (1972-1980): Sedimentologia. Vol. 1 (217 pp.), vol. 2 (210 pp.), vol. 3.
Clueb, Bologna,
-Cateneau O. Principles of sequence stratigraphy, Elsevier, Tokyo, pp.375.
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