Introduction to Clastic Sedimentology; classification of clastic sedimentary rocks: main depositional processes; application of Sedimentology to the stratigraphic analysis ; Introduction to Sequence Straigraphy
Rocce e Successioni Sedimentarie, Bosellini, Mutti e Ricci-Lucchi, UTET
Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, G. Nichols, Blackwell
Teaching Methods
Lectures in classroom and in the field
Further information
Copies of powerpoints presentation will be available
Type of Assessment
The oral final examination is aimed to verify the concepts discussed in the lessons through the description and interpretation of images and schemes representing sedimentary structures
Course program
Brief history of sedimentology and recall the main types of sedimentary rocks, sediment characteristics, classification of sedimentary rocks; mechanisms of transport and deposition of clastic sediments, the main sedimentary structures, applications of sedimentology in Sedimentary Geology, facies analysis and sedimentary facies; Basic principles of Sequence Stratigraphy with application to outcrop scale