- Docente: Veronica Rossi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geology and Land Management (cod. 8027)
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in Quaternary Geology for a critical analysis of outcropping and buried Quaternary successions. Specifically, students will be able to:
- plan and develop an integrated bio-sedimentary approach aimed at the description and interpretation of Quaternary successions;- reconstruct the sedimentary and environmental dynamics of both natural and human-dominated depositional systems during the Quaternary period;
- identify and evaluate the main controlling factors influencing the depositional architecture and evolution of Quaternary successions.
Course contents
The Quaternary period: stratigraphic subdivision; dating methods for Quaternary deposits; Quaternary isotope stratigraphy, climate variability and sea-level changes; Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch cycles; high-frequency climate and sea-level changes during the present interglacial period (proxy data and current state of knowledge); geomorphologic evidence of climate and sea-level changes during the Quaternary period; basic concepts on depositional environments and facies; depositional architecture of Quaternary successions and relationships with climate and sea-level changes at Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch scales; allogenic and autogenic forcing factors controlling the depositional architecture; Anthropocene and mid-late Holocene successions as depositional archives of the human impact; geological maps of Quaternary deposits.
Readings/Bibliography
The bibliographic material will be provided during the course.
Teaching methods
Lectures, field work.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
LCD projector.
Office hours
See the website of Veronica Rossi