- 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 in a source-to-sink context, including reservoir characterization and predictive models of paleosol stratigraphy, fluvial architecture, paleovalley filling and coastal progradation. Use of geotechnical data in stratigraphy. Application of sequence stratigraphy principles and sediment core analysis to hydrostratigraphy and groundwater contamination issues.
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. Environmental stratigraphy. Use of stratigraphic markers to detect recent tectonic deformation.
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
Video projector, outcrops, sediment cores
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.