Learning objectives
At the end of the course, it is expected that the student will be able to:- to know and use the main stratigraphic methods- recognize and correlate simple rocks sequences using multiple stratigraphic methodologies- describe and drawing rock successions- read and understand simple scientific texts in English- preparing short technical-scientific reports about field trips experience and/or on specific assigned topics
Prerequisites
Attendance for the lessons of the INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES, SEDIMENTOLOGY and PALEONTOLOGY courseS
Course unit content
The STRATIGRAPHY course provides basic knowledge about stratigraphic analysis methodology and on stratigraphic correlation techniques through classroom exercises and on the field.
Full programme
Origins, Objectives and Problems of Stratigraphy
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- The traditional stratigraphic units: lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, magnetostratigraphic, chemostratigrafiche, cyclostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- stratigraphic boundaries
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- stratigraphic discontinuities
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- rocks dating techniques
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- the geological time scale
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- stratification
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Introduction to facies analysis
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- How to study an outcrop (description, data sample collection and, graphic representation, field trip)
ID: Applied knowledge and understanding skills- Depositional systems
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Walther's Law
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Transgressions, regression and sedimentary cycles
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Sedimentary basins
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Introduction to Unconformity Bounded Stratigraphic Units and Sequence Stratigraphy
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Wheeler Diagram
ID: Knowledge and understanding skills- Stratigraphic correlations (with exercises)
ID: Applied knowledge and understanding skills
Bibliography
Didactic material (slide, scientific articles) made available on the webSuggested text book:
A.D. Miall – Stratigraphy: a modern synthesis, Springer
Ricci Lucchi F. – Sedimentografia – Zanichelli, Bologna
Bosellini A., Mutti E. e Ricci Lucchi F. – Rocce e Successioni sedimentarie – UTET, Torino (no longer printed, available from department library)
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures with multimedia tools, practical application of concepts through individual and group exercises in the classroom and on the field
Assessment methods and criteria
Examination through:a written and practical test including an exercise of stratigraphic correlation and questions on module topics and an oral examination; (ID: knowledge and understanding skills; knowledge and understanding skills applied)
Other information
Information on the content of the course (see below) are associated with the relative "Dublin Indicators" (DI) that characterize their purposes.
Dublin Indicators:
- Knowledge and understanding;
- Applying knowledge and understanding;
- Making judgements;
- Communication skills;
- Learning skills.
