Unit GEOLOGY 1
- Course
- Geology
- Study-unit Code
- 55A00014
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Angela Bertinelli
- Teachers
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- Angela Bertinelli
- Hours
- 78 ore - Angela Bertinelli
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Ambito geologico-paleontologico
- Academic discipline
- GEO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Stratigraphy. Facies. Heteropy. Lithogenetic cycle: weathering, sedimentation, diagenesis. Physical characters. Sedimentary structures. Depositional environments (terrigenous, carbonatic, evaporitic) and stratigraphic logs. Classification of sedimentary rocks: terrigenous, carbonatic, evaporitic, siliceous and dolostones. The Umbria-Marche stratigraphic succession. Practical laboratory and fieldtrips.
- Reference texts
- Geologia del sedimentario - M.E. Tucker (Dario Flaccovio Ed.);
slides of the lessons and other material provided by the professor.
Other suggested texts:
Rocce e successioni sedimentarie - A. Bosellini, E. Mutti, F. Ricci Lucchi (UTET);
Sedimentology, Process and Product - M.R. Leeder (Springer, in english);
Capire la Terra - Press, Siever, Grotzinger & Jordan (Zanichelli Editore Bologna);
Sedimentografia - F. Ricci Lucchi (Zanichelli);
Atlas and glossary of primary sedimentary structures - F.J. Pettijohn & P.E. Potter (Springer Verlag);
Rocce sedimentarie, guida alla descrizione degli affioramenti rocciosi - M.E. Tucker (Dario Flaccovio Ed.);
Atlante delle rocce sedimentarie al microscopio - A.E. Adams, W.S. Mackenzie, C. Guilford (Zanichelli Editore Bologna);
Facies models - R.G. Walker (Geoscience Canada Reprint Series 1);
Introduzione alla studio delle rocce carbonatiche - A. Bosellini (Italo Bovolenta Ed.);
Guide Geologiche regionali n. 7 , vol. I and vol. II “Appennino Umbro-Marchigiano” (BE-MA ed.) - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course of Geology 1 is to supply students with knowledge and tools to be able to perform facies analysis, with descriptions of the main lithological features (with classification of rocks), and to define the depositional environments (using stratigraphic logs).
The main acquired knowledge will be related to: principles of stratigraphy and sedimentology; characterization of the depositional environments; characterization of the Umbria-Marche stratigraphic succession (as palaeoenvironmental evolution through space and time).
The main acquired applying knowledge will be: to recognise and to describe different lithological features, sedimentary structures, depositional environments, and to be able to perform facies analysis (through the use and the realization of stratigraphic logs, too). - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to better understand the topics described within the course of Geology 1, you should have successfully passed the exames of Physic Geography and Earth Science Fundamentals, Palaeontology, Mineralogy.
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical lessons and practical training, with laboratory and field trips.
- Other information
- Attendance at lessons is recommended, mainly for laboratory and field trips.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists in an unique test, subdivided in two different parts:
a practice part with the aim to describe and classificate rock samples (closed stimulus with open answer practice test)
an oral part to test the ability of the student to contextualize the descriptions given in the practice part (open stimulus with open answer oral exam)
The two parts of the exame will be complete inside an unique session, with variable duration, depending on the preparation of the student.
The exame will be evaluated in thirtieths, on the base of the quality of the open answers given for the practice and the oral parts. - Extended program
- Stratigraphy. Facies. Heteropy. Stratigraphic gaps. Subsidence and sedimentation. Lithogenetic cycle: weathering, sedimentation, diagenesis. Texture and physical characters; grain properties. Sedimentary structures. Depositional environments (terrigenous, carbonatic and evaporitic). Stratigraphic logs. Classification of sedimentary rocks: terrigenous, carbonatic, evaporitic, siliceous and dolostones. The Umbria-Marche stratigraphic succession. Practical laboratory and fieldtrips.