- 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)
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from Sep 23, 2024 to Dec 03, 2024
Learning outcomes
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, sound understanding of the concepts and methodologies of sequence stratigraphy.
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 materialTeaching methods
Lectures, field work
Assessment methods
oral exam
Teaching tools
Video projector, outcrops
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.