Weeks | Topics |
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Introduction, basic terms (sediment, sedimentary rock, petrography, petrology), sedimentary processes, Practice: Textural-structural properties of clastic rocks (grain shape, roundness, angularity, sorting, grading, orientation/fabric, matrix and cement etc.)
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Depositinal environments, diagenesis and diagenetic processes, classification of sedimentary rocks, Practice: Hand specimen scale investigation of conglomerates and breccias
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3 |
Epiclastic sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of sandstones (quartz arenite, arkose, subarkose)
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4 |
Epiclastic sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of sandstones (litharenite/greywacke, sublitharenite)
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5 |
Epiclastic sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of siltstone, mudstone, claystone/shale samples
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6 |
Pyroclastic sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen investigation of agglomerates and lapillistones
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Pyroclastic sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of tuffs and tuffites
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8 |
Chemical/biochemical sedimentary rocks, limestones and dolomites (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Textural-structural properties of limestones and dolomites (allochems: intraclast, fossil, oolites, pellet, orthochems: micrite, sparite, recrystallization, orientation/fabric etc.)
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Limestones and dolomites (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of limestones and dolomites (sparite, dolosparite, oosparite, biosparite)
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10 |
Limestones and dolomites (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of limestones and dolomites (micrite, dolomicrite, biomicrite, intramicrite)
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Siliceous sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen and microscopic investigation of chert and radiolarites
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12 |
Evaporitic rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen investigation of gypsum, anhydrite and salts
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13 |
Organic sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen investigation of coal and coaly rocks
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14 |
Iron- and phosphate-bearing sedimentary rocks (classification/ identification, origin, environmental interpretation), Practice: Hand specimen investigation of sedimentary iron occurrences
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