APPLIED SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

The course will be based on a multidisciplinary approach and will be developed on the analyses of data collected in the frame of a 3-days excursion, which will be held within the first two weeks of the course.
Content of the course will be as follows:
Introduction to the main geomorphological, geological and stratigraphic features of the selected study area (credits 0.25)
Introduction to the research program (goal of the study and schedule) and summary of the main research methodologies (credits 0.5)
Field activities and data collection (credit 1)
Sedimentology (credit 1): facies analyses and reconstruction of depositional dynamics, architectural analyses and definition of 3D sedimentary bodies, summary
Sedimentary petrography (credit 1): sediment characterization, provenance analyses, summary
Paleoecology and biostratigraphy (credit 1): determination of fossil content, biostratigraphy and ecobiostratigraphy, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, summary
Carbonate petrography and geochemistry (credit 1): biomineralizations, sclerochronology, trace elements and stable isotope geochemistry, summary
Integration of the acquired datasets and final summary (credits 0.25)