Sedimentology and Sedimentary Petrology
| 14 – 18 July 2025 | Abu Dhabi | 08 – 12 Dec. 2025 | Dubai | 15 – 19 Dec. 2025 | Abu Dhabi |
The course provides to recognize the concept of Sedimentary facies analysis eventually leads to sequence stratigraphy, which is the study of rock relationships within a chronostratigraphic framework of repetitive, genetically related strata bounded by surfaces of erosion or nondeposition, or their correlative conformities The aim of this course is to recognize a fundamental sedimentological method of characterizing bodies of sediment and sedimentary rocks with unique physical and biological attributes relative to the adjacent deposits.
After attending the course, participants will be able to:
paleoenvironmental reconstructions
sequence stratigraphy
depositional environment
sedimentary basin
subsidence history
seisimic faceis analysis
sedimentary features
facies distribution , faceis associations , depositional elements
sedimentology and geochemistry After attending the course, participants will be able to:
*recognize the most important sedimentary rocks macroscopically as well as microscopically and integrate them in a genetic system. Students are also expected to argue in which sedimentary environments these sedimentary rocks likely formed;
recognize sedimentary sequences and cycles and relate them to sedimentary mechanisms;
interpret correctly sedimentary structures and relate them to sedimentary processes;
have acquired the basic concepts of facies analysis and diagenetic modification of sediments;
have acquired insight into different sedimentary processes in recent environments (Aeolian, lacustrine, glacial, fluviatile, deltaic, shallow marine, deep marine and deltaic sediments) and lay the link with similar paleoenvironments.
The practical courses aim:
*determining the most important sedimentary rocks macroscopically as well as microscopically;
making conclusions on the basis of petrographic observations about sedimentary conditions as well as about specific diagenesis processes (on a restricted basis)
integrating the knowledge acquired in this practical in the complementary course
The excursion is aimed at acquainting the students with the variability of rocks in field conditions. Another goal is to develop a model concerning the geological history of an area where sedimentary deposits occur in the Ardennes. development geologists& petrologist development geologists& petrologist
