IDRAULICA AMBIENTALE E GEOLOGIA
Module ELEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA PER LA PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Francesco SCIUTO

Detailed 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

 SubjectsText References
1Planet Earth and its structure
2The great features of the earth: Continents, Oceans, Seas
3Stratigraphy and chronology
4Time in geology
5Fossils
6Rocks: definitions and classification
7metamorphic rocks
8magmatic rocks
9sedimentary rocks
10Relative chronology and principles of stratigraphy
11spatial layout of the layers
12Tectonic
13plate tectonics
14Reading of geological maps.