1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	45
Practicum	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

1) Facies (lithofacies, biofacies, microfacies, descriptive facies, genetic facies), facies association, sequence, architectural elements, and lateral profiles.
2) Facies models.
3) Sedimentological logs.
4) Basic principles of sequence stratigraphy.
5) Sedimentary basins and plate tectonics.
6) Alluvial fans.
7) Rivers, characteristic facies and facies associations, glaciofluvial facies and environments.
8) Deltas, types of deltas, tripartite deltas, delta successions, fan deltas, Gilbert-type deltas.
9) Clastic and carbonate coasts, coastal processes, and environments.
10) Clastic and carbonate shelf, carbonate platform, shelf processes, shelf facies, and facies associations.
11) Estuaries and incised valleys.
12) Deep-sea environments, deep-sea turbidites, debrites, slumps and landslides, olistoliths, contourites, pelagic and hemipelagic sediments.
13) Aeolian facies and environments.

1. Gary Nichols (2009): Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (second edition; Willey-Blackwell; 419 p.)
2. Noel P. James & Robert W. Dalrymple (2010): Facies Models 4 (Geological Association of Canada; 586 p.)
3. John Collinson, Nigel Mountney & David Thompson (2006): Sedimentary Structures (third editon; Terra; 292 p.)
4. Angela L. Coe et al., (2003): The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change (Cambridge Univity Press; 288 p.)
5. Octavian Catuneanu (2006): Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy (Elsevier; 375 p.)
6. Henry W. Posamentier & Roger G. Walker (eds.) (2006): Facies Modela Revisited (SEPM Special Publication 84; 527 p.
7. Wojtek Nemec (1996): Principles of lithostratigraphic logging and facies analysis (Short course Compendium); Department of Earth Science University of Bergen; 28 p.

Enrollment :
Passed : Field course in geology II
Passed : Sedimentary petrology

Mandatory course - Regular study - Geology