Gaining insight and knowledge into the concepts, methods, techniques, and applications of micropaleontology, as well as its role within the broader context of geological research. Through case studies of sediments and microfossil assemblages from the Paleozoic to recent deposits, the systematics, utility, and areas of application of various microfossil groups will be demonstrated.
Students will acquire a comprehensive overview of different methods and microfossil groups widely used in both academic research and the oil and gas industry. The following topics will be covered:
1. Environments: terrestrial, marine, and transitional; their distribution, physicochemical properties, and ecological factors governing them and controlling organism distribution.
2. Microfossils: skeletal structures, identification, and evolution.
3. Precambrian environment: blue-green bacteria and Archaea.
4. Paleozoic marine environments: radiolarians, ostracods, chitinozoans, conodonts, and architrachs.
5. Late Paleozoic shallow-marine environments: large benthic foraminifera, green and red algae.
6. Mesozoic marine environments: from the "organism-barren" period to the diversity and abundance of the Cretaceous (planktonic foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, diatoms, dinoflagellates, algae).
7. Recovery of shallow-water microorganisms after major extinctions, their distribution and diversity, and the establishment of environments similar to modern ones.
8. Recent environments and the microorganisms that inhabit them.
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