SUBJECT
Title
Integrated stratigraphic analysis
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
- Application of stratigraphic methods in selected case studies.
- Complex lithostratigraphic characterization of geological formations.
- Major groups of age-diagnostic fossils used in biostratigraphy.
- Radiometric dating and magnetostratigraphy integrated with biostratigraphy.
- Paleoenvironments inferred from fossil assemblages.
- Paleoenvironmental changes inferred from stratigraphic successions.
- Chemostratigraphy.
- Geochronology and the geological time scale.
Readings
- Brookfield, M. F. (2004): Principles of Stratigraphy, Blackwell, Malden MA, 340 p.
- Nichols, G. (2009): Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 432 p.
- Einsele, G. (1992): Sedimentary Basins, Springer, Berlin, 628 p.