Learning objectives
Acquire a deeper knowledge of the biostratigraphy, its integration with other stratigraphic disciplines and its importance in obtaining a chronostratigraphic and biochronologic framework of sedimentary successions and in the Geological Time Scale.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
• Biostratigraphy: definitions, biostratigraphic units, methods of biostratigraphic analysis, biozonations, biostratigraphic correlations.
• Biostratigraphy integrated with magnetostratigraphy, isotope stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy.
• Biochronology.
• Biostratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy and Geological Time Scale.
• Biostratigraphy applied to sequence stratigraphy and petroleum exploration.
• Main calcareous plankton biostratigraphic markers.
Full programme
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Bibliography
McGowran B., 2005. Biostratigraphy. Microfossils and Geological Time. Cambridge University Press.
Teaching methods
frontal and practical lessons
Assessment methods and criteria
oral exam
Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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