GEOE 240 : Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

Department

Department of Geological Engineering

Academic Program

Bachelor in Bachelor of Geological Engineering

Type

Compulsory

Credits

04

Prerequisite

GEOE 220GEOE 230

Overview

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fields of sedimentology and stratigraphy. Students examine the physical and chemical processes that govern sediment production, transport, and deposition in a variety of environments, and gain expertise in the identification and classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks using various classification schemes. The course also introduces different principles and methods for stratigraphic analysis and correlation. Students incorporate these methods with sedimentological data and observations to describe and interpret sedimentary facies, predict facies architecture, and resolve depositional histories. Students learn associations between tectonic settings and depositional facies, and the tectonic controls on the development of sedimentary basins are presented with a focus on basin development in Libya.

Intended learning outcomes

مع نهاية الأسبوع الـ 12.......، يجب أن يكون الطالب قادر على:

interpret the depositional processes, sedimentary facies and stratigraphy in relationship to depositional environment, relative changes in sea level, the tectonic setting of the basin and climate

To explore the origin and evolution of sediments and sedimentary rocks

To provide practical laboratory and field experience in the description of sedimentary deposits in order to interpret Earth's long history

To integrate aspects of sedimentation and stratigraphy into other aspects of the earth sciences.

Teaching and learning methods

قراءات/مراجع/ملاحظات	الأسبوع	المحتوي (الموضوع) لكل أسبوع
	1	Class Intro, Intro to Sedimentary Processes and Sedimentary Rocks
No Laboratory equipment available	2	Terrigenous Clastic Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks; Sediments: From Source to Destination
	3	Texture of clastic sedimentary rocks
	4	Sandstone classification
	5	Biogenic, Chemical and Volcanogenic Sediments and Rocks
	6	Texture and classification of carbonate rocks
	7	Sedimentary Structures
	8	Environments and facies
	9	Environments and facies
	10	Introducing Stratigraphy, concepts in stratigraphy
	11	Lagoon cycle and Carbonates diagenesis
Fieldwork sessions	12	Field Trip – Mesozoic and Cenozoic outcrops

Methods of assessments

تتكون استراتيجية التقييم للطالب في هذا المقرر من أربعة عناصر:

• First able, Students are strongly encouraged to attend all lectures and fieldwork
• field exercises.
• Midterm exam
• Lecture Assignments

Final lecture exam

المصادر والمراجع الأساسية للمقرر

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Gary Nichol Sedimentology: Process and Product M.R. Leeder Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 3rd edition, Boggs (2000)

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Mineralogy and Petrology (GEOE 230)
Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (GEOE 240)
Fluid Mechanics (GEOE 315)
Geochemistry (GEOE 353)
Geoengineering I (GEOE 470)
Well Logging I (GEOE 361)
Prop. Of Construction Materials (GEOE 364)
Economic Geology (GEOE 363)
X-Ray (GEOE 362)
Soil Mechanics (GEOE 360)
Geomorphology (GEOE 354)
Computer Application (GEOE 475)
Ground Water Flow (GEOE 473)
Industrial Rocks and minerals (GEOE 575)
Clay Minerals (GEOE 577)
Exploration Methods (GEOE 579)
Mining Geo-Engineering (GEOE 584)
Ore Evaluation (GEOE 585)
Well Logging II (GEOE 586)
Principles of Groundwater Modeling (GEOE 589)
Water Well Design and Maintenance (GEOE 590)
Slope Stability (GEOE 592)
Site Investigation (GEOE 593)
Petrophysics (GEOE 595)
Basin Analysis (GEOE 596)