- Docente: Alessandro Amorosi
- Credits: 7
- SSD: GEO/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geology and Territory (cod. 9073)
Learning outcomes
To develop advanced techniques of stratigraphic correlation, including predictive models of subsurface stratigraphy, use of geotechnical data in stratigraphy, application of sequence stratigraphy principles, core analysis
Course contents
Critical analysis of sequence stratigraphy. Key surfaces for stratigraphic interpretation. Reservoir stratigraphy, hydrostratigraphy, unconventional reservoirs.. Heterogeneities and permeability barriers. Parasequences. Paleosol stratigraphy and fluvial architecture. Paleovalley systems. Geotechnical tools in stratigraphy. Source-to-sink analysis. Chemostratigraphy. Core interpretation and facies analysis. High-resolution subsurface stratigraphy. Stratigraphy of mud-prone successions.
Readings/Bibliography
Selected articles as supporting material
Teaching methods
Lectures, Field work
Assessment methods
Practical exam (stratigraphic correlation/interpretation problem) + short oral exam
Teaching tools
LCD projector
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Amorosi