CARBONATE SEDIMENTOLOGY
Second cycle degree in GEOLOGY AND TECHNICAL GEOLOGY
Campus: PADOVA
Language: English
Teaching period: First Semester
Lecturer: NEREO PRETO
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
| Prerequisites: | Knowledges of sedimentary geology and clastic sedimentology; base notions of chemistry. |
| Examination methods: | Written test |
| Course unit contents: | - Te carbon cycle in the oceans, and some notions of physical oceanography;
- the precipitation of carbonates as a chemical and biological process; - origin of carbonate platforms and deep-water carbonates; - types of carbonate platforms, their depositional architectures, and their dynamic stratigraphy; - diagenesis of carbonates and reconstruction of diagenetic histories; - dolomitization processes; - sequence stratigraphy of carbonates. |