Syllabus
1. Siliciclastic rocks - grain-size analysis, morphology, modal composition, provenance, heavy minerals, geochronology; diagenesis - compaction, porosity, decompaction, backstripping, authigenesis, cements, diagenetic environments
2. Carbonates I. - mineralogy, specific structures, components, classification (Folk 1962, Dunham
1962); depositional environmments
3. Carbonates II. - dolomitization, dedolomitization, porosity, early, late and burial diagenesis, cements, diagenetic environments
4. Evaporites, cherts, ironstones, organic matter and hydrocarbons, glauconite, phosphates
5. Geochemistry of sedimentary rocks - stable isotopes, trace elements, chemostratigraphy, eventostratigraphy; cathodoluminiscence; case studies
6. Paleosols - processes, diagnostic features; humid, arid, semiarid; calcretes, silcretes, dolocretes Course schedule: 12 2-hour or 6 4-hour lectures practicals include half day field work and 2 3-hour microscopy lab work Requirements: credit - oral presentation of selected scientific paper, student project including field and microscopical documentation of outcrop measured section and interpretation of depositional and diaggenetic history from the obtained data exam: test - knowledge quiz + essay on selected topic Dependencies: basic courses in Mineralogy and Petrology (1st year) must be passed; completion of Sedimentary geology course (3rd year, autumn semester) is highly recommended Aim: Course provides students with advanced techniques and approaches used in the study of sedimentary rocks - siliciclastics, carbonates, evaporites, cherts, ironstones, phosphates and hydrocarbons. Emphasis is given to microstructures, provenance and diagenetic processes. Students will acquire strong skills in recognition of the rock composition, sedimentary structures and microstructures, and they will be able to interpret these data in terms of diagenetic history, fluid flow and small-scale depositional history.
Annotation
Course provides students with advanced techniques and approaches used in the study of sedimentary rocks - siliciclastics, carbonates, evaporites, cherts, ironstones, phosphates and hydrocarbons. Emphasis is given to microstructures, provenance and diagenetic processes.
Students will acquire strong skills in recognition of the rock composition, sedimentary structures and microstructures, and they will be able to interpret these data in terms of diagenetic history, fluid flow and small-scale depositional history.