Unit SEDIMENTOLOGY
- Course
- Geology for energy resources
- Study-unit Code
- GP006017
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Simonetta Cirilli
- Teachers
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- Simonetta Cirilli
- Hours
- 68 ore - Simonetta Cirilli
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline geologiche e paleontologiche
- Academic discipline
- GEO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Sedimentary processes - transport and deposition and structures. Facies analysis and depositional architectures. Introduction to diagenesis. Data collection strategies in the field and subsurface. Methods for the interpretation of sedimentary environments
- Reference texts
- text books
James N.P & Dalrymple (2010) - Facies Models 4. GEOtext6. Geological Association of Canada
Nichols G. (2009) - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 2nd Edition, 432 pages, Wiley-Blackwell
additional texts
Reading H.G. (2004) third edition- Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy . Blackwell Science. pp.689.
D. Emery and K. Myers (2009) - Sequence Stratigraphy. pp.304. Wiley¸
Richard C. Selley (2000)- Applied Sedimentology, Second Edition . Academic press
Tucker M.E.: Geologia del sedimentario; Flaccovio Dario Editor
Roger. M. Slatt (2007) - Stratigraphic Reservoir characterization for petroleum geologists, Geophysicists and Engineers. Handbook of Petroleum exploration and production, Vol.6, John Cubitt (Ed), Elsevier , pp. 478. - Educational objectives
- The course represents one of the fundamental courses of the first semester of the Petroleum Geology Master. It aims to improve the theoretical and practical knowledge on sedimentary geology.
The main knowledge and skills that students will acquire are:
- 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 the exploration petroleum geology - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand the main subjects and to apply the majority of the techniques described in the course the students must have:
- an essential knowledge of the fundamentals of geology
- a basic knowledge of the sedimentary rocks and on the sedimentary processes
- a basic knowledge on the classification schemes of the sedimentary rocks
- a basic knowledge of the principle of stratigraphy
- confidence in the field geology (in making geologic observations and interpretations)
This preconditions is valid for attending and not attending students. - Teaching methods
- Written test: it consist of the solution of multiple choice test and graphic /practical exercises. The number of tests ranges between 16-32 pending from the difficulty. The test has a duration of no more than 70 minutes. It is designed to evaluate the knowledge acquired, the ability to correctly apply the theoretical knowledge of the sedimentary geology, the ability to rapidly solve the proposed problems.
To complete the evaluation the test also consists on the discussion of a case study proposed by the Professor carried out individually or in small groups.
It consists to discuss the sedimentological and stratigraphic features of a certain geological area and the implications for the subsurface hydrocarbon exploitation.
The students must depict the geologic setting, the methodological approach, the data set and the possible hypotheses to reconstruct the depositional environment.
The presentation has a duration of 15 minutes (about 15 slides) and require theoretical insights and clarification of details by the other students and by the board of examiners.
The examination, as a whole, allows to verify both the ability of knowledge and understanding, to practice applying the skills and knowledge they gain, to propose solutions. Also, the examination aims to get in use the student to work in group.
Some assesments (commonly 2) during the period of the course could be scheduled. In this case students will be duly informed. - Other information
- The course focuses on the sedimentary geological processes in the frame of hydrocarbon exploration
- Learning verification modality
- Written test: it consist of the solution of multiple choice test and graphic /practical exercises. The number of tests ranges between 16-32 pending from the difficulty. The test has a duration of no more than 70 minutes. It is designed to evaluate the knowledge acquired, the ability to correctly apply the theoretical knowledge of the sedimentary geology, the ability to rapidly solve the proposed problems.
To complete the evaluation the test also consists on the discussion of a case study proposed by the Professor carried out individually or in small groups.
It consists to discuss the sedimentological and stratigraphic features of a certain geological area and the implications for the subsurface hydrocarbon exploitation.
The students must depict the geologic setting, the methodological approach, the data set and the possible hypotheses to reconstruct the depositional environment.
The presentation has a duration of 15 minutes (about 15 slides) and require theoretical insights and clarification of details by the other students and by the board of examiners.
The examination, as a whole, allows to verify both the ability of knowledge and understanding, to practice applying the skills and knowledge they gain, to propose solutions. Also, the examination aims to get in use the student to work in group.
Some assesments (commonly 2) during the period of the course could be scheduled. In this case students will be duly informed. - Extended program
- Processi di trasporto e deposizione
Principali strutture sedimentarie
Ambienti sedimentari con esempi riguardanti reservoirs e rocce madri
- Sistemi deposizionali e depositi terrigeno-clastici (es: eolici, fluviali, deltizi, di transizione s.l.)
- Sistemi deposizionali e depositi carbonatici: di shallow water (es.: piattaforme e rampe carbonatiche); slope e bacino prossimale; bacini e bacini profondi
- Sistemi deposizionali e depositi carbonatico-evaporitici
- Analisi di facies e architetture deposizionali, geometrie e relazioni tra i corpi sedimentari.
Processi e prodotti diagenetici
- domini diagenetici: diagenesi precoce e diagenesi profonda.
- principali processi diagenetici