IDRAULICA AMBIENTALE E GEOLOGIAModule ELEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA PER LA PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Francesco SCIUTODetailed Course Content
Composition, textures and structures of sediments Terrigenous sediments Ruditi Arenites Pelites Sediments and carbonate rocks Mixed sediments siliceous sediments Other types of sedimentary rocks Sedimentary processes Erosion, transport and sedimentation by continental water currents Erosion, transport and sedimentation by wave motion and marine currents Erosion, transport and sedimentation by wind Turbidity currents Non-particle deposits (bioconstructions) Sedimentary structures Physical Chemistry Linked to the activity of organisms Sedimentary environments, sediments and facies Marine environments Platform sediments and facies Bathyal sediments and facies Rocks, sediments and facies of reefs Transitional environments Sediments and facies of littoral systems Beach sediments and facies Tidal flat sediments and facies Barrier Island sediments and facies Sediments and facies of deltaic system Continental environments Sediments and facies of the alluvial system Sediments and facies of the glacial system Sediments and facies of the desert system (aeolian) Sediments and facies of the lake system
rock recognition.
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | Planet Earth and its structure | |
2 | The great features of the earth: Continents, Oceans, Seas | |
3 | Stratigraphy and chronology | |
4 | Time in geology | |
5 | Fossils | |
6 | Rocks: definitions and classification | |
7 | metamorphic rocks | |
8 | magmatic rocks | |
9 | sedimentary rocks | |
10 | Relative chronology and principles of stratigraphy | |
11 | spatial layout of the layers | |
12 | Tectonic | |
13 | plate tectonics | |
14 | Reading of geological maps. |