Clastic Sedimentology
Course overview
The course provides a detailed look at clastic rocks and the sediments that make up these rocks, and examines concepts and models of their deposition.
The course is designed for
Individuals in sedimentary geology and petroleum geology who are currently involved in development or exploration of clastic reservoirs, for example:
- Geologists
- Geophysicists
- Drilling engineers
- Reservoir engineers
Learning objectives
- Recognition of the main sedimentary structures and processes and ability to relate them to the original depositional environment
- Ability to recognize, from the available data of outcrops and well logs, the depositional architectures and to reconstruct the depositional scenarios in time and space
- Ability to reconstruct and correlate at small and large scale the sedimentary sequences
- Ability to extrapolate from the available data of outcrops (surficial analogous) the subsurface geology
- To link the acquired knowledge to exploration petroleum geology
Course outline
Depositional environments
Introduction to Sequence stratigraphy
The classification of clastic deposits
External controls on sediment derivation, transport and deposition
Sedimentary and erosional structures
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- JOGMEC, Japan
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