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37467 - Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

Academic Year 2021/2022

                
                        Docente:
                        Alessandro Amorosi
                    
                        Credits:
                        8
                    
                        SSD:
                        GEO/02
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Geological Sciences (cod. 8015)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

To provide basic concepts in stratigraphy and sedimentology. To develop an integrated approach to outcrop description and interpretation including: construction of stratigraphic and sedimentological logs, outcrop description by line drawings, identification and interpretation of major sedimentary structures in outcrop.

Course contents

The concept of 'bed', 'facies' and 'sedimentary body'. Processes of transport and sedimentary structures. Depositional environments, with special emphasis on fluvial, deltaic, littoral, (siliciclastic and carbonate) shelf, deep-marine and evaporitic systems. 3D-analysis of sedimentary bodies. Stratigraphic concepts. Unconformities. Dating and correlation techniques. Cyclic events in stratigraphy. Lithostratigraphy, allostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy.

Readings/Bibliography

- Nichols G., 2009. Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Wiley-Blackwell

- Bosellini A., Mutti E. & Ricci Lucchi F., 1989. Rocce e successioni sedimentarie. UTET

- Ricci Lucchi F. Sedimentologia Parte III. Clueb

- Ricci Lucchi F. Sedimentografia Seconda Edizione. Zanichelli

- Selected articles as supporting material

Teaching methods

Lectures, field work

Assessment methods

oral exam

Teaching tools

LCD projector

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Amorosi

SDGs

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.