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B006280 - SEDIMENTOLOGY
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Earth Sciences (DST)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
GEO/02 - STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
19/09/2016 ⇒ 23/12/2016
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Sedimentology
Course Content
Introduction to Sedimentology; classification of clastic sedimentary rocks: main depositional processes; Carbonate and Evaporite sedimentology; application of Sedimentology to the stratigraphic analysis
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Rocce e Successioni Sedimentarie, Bosellini, Mutti e Ricci-Lucchi, UTET
Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, G. Nichols, Blackwell
Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, G. Nichols, Blackwell
Learning Objectives
Description of textures and structures of sedimentary rocks, interpretation of the main depositional processes and dynamics for a reconstruction of ancient depositional environments
Prerequisites
Geologia 1, Geomorfologia
Teaching Methods
Lectures and field laboratory
Further information
PowerPoint slides will be available for the students
Type of Assessment
final examination
Course program
Brief history of sedimentology and recall the main types of sedimentary rocks, sediment characteristics, classification of sedimentary rocks; mechanisms of transport and deposition of clastic sediments, the main sedimentary structures, applications of sedimentology in Sedimentary Geology, facies analysis and sedimentary facies;