- Docente: Alessandro Amorosi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geology for Sustainable Development (cod. 6050)
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from Sep 29, 2025 to Jan 14, 2026
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to improve students’ ability to: (i) develop advanced techniques of stratigraphic correlation in outcrop and subsurface (ii) describe and interpret sediment cores (iii) perform stratigraphic interpretation of cone penetration tests (iv) use geometric and sedimentological features of sediment bodies as tools for reservoir/aquifer characterization (v) apply basic concepts of sequence stratigraphy to solve engineering and environmental problems.
Course contents
Fundamentals of stratigraphy and sedimentology. Advanced techniques of stratigraphic correlation. Use of sequence stratigraphy for outcrop and subsurface correlation. Quaternary stratigraphy and climate change. Description and interpretation of sediment cores. Stratigraphic interpretation of cone penetration tests. Key stratigraphic surfaces and sediment bodies: paleosol stratigraphy and fluvial architecture, peat horizons, paleovalley systems. Hydrostratigraphic units, aquifers, and permeability barriers. Stratigraphic control on contaminant distribution. Chemostratigraphy. High-resolution stratigraphy and recent tectonic deformation. Application of Quaternary stratigraphy to engineering geology and seismic microzonation.
Readings/Bibliography
Selected scientific articles as supporting material
Teaching methods
Lectures, Field work
Assessment methods
Written exam (integrated stratigraphy correlation problem - 2 hours) + short oral exam
Teaching tools
LCD projector, stratigraphic analysis in the field, sediment core analysis
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.