Students should be able to recognise and classify, through thin section analyses and microscope observation of heavy minerals, the silicoclastic sedimentary rocks giving an appropriate paleogeographic reconstruction

Mineralogy, Petrography, Geology I

Petrographic description of arenites, classification of arenites, factors influencing the composition of sedimentary rocks and interpretation of provenance. Heavy minerals. COnglomerates. Pelites

Maurice E. Tucker - Sedimentary Petrology - Blackwell Publishing
Maria A. Mange e David T. Wright - Heavy minerals in use – Elsevier
Carbonate sedimentology (M.E. Tucker and V.P.Wright)
Carbonate rocks constituents; Cements and Porosity AAPG Memoir 27)
Sedimentary Petrology -(M.E. Tucker)

Petrographic description of arenites (texture, fabric, matrix, porosity, dissolution, grain recognition, classification of arenites (Folk, Gazzi-Dickinson, Zuffa methods), factors influencing the composition of sedimentary rocks (climate, relief, transport, sedimentation, diagenesis) and interpretation of provenance. Heavy minerals. Conglomerates. Pelites

Direct lessons and laboratory

Seminars will be provided

thin section analyses of arenites and oral examination

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)