KGE/SEDG Sedimentology

Lecturers: Ondřej Bábek, Zdeněk Dolníček
Lecture: 2 hours/week
Credits: 2
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

• Introduction to sedimentology (extension, philosophy and practical importance of the discipline), basic terminology: sediment, facies, facies model, sediment provenance, stratigraphy and cyclicity, differences between carbonate and siliciclastic sediments)
• Sedimentary petrography (classification of sedimentary rocks – carbonates and siliciclastic sediments, features of sedimentary grains, composition, colour, roundness, grain size analysis, provenance analysis, diagenesis and diagenetic environment, main cement types)
• Formation, mechanics of transport and deposition of solid matter grains, sedimentary textures and mechanics of their formation
• Clastic sediments and their facies models (terrestric sedimentary environments and their facies models)
• Clastic sediments and their facies models (transitional and shallow marine sedimentary environments and their facies models)
• Carbonate sediments and their facies models
• Spatial and temporal relations between depositional systems, autocyclicity and allocyclicity, depositional sekquences and sequential stratigraphy, main factors influencing the stratigraphy of depositional sequences: eustasy, tectonics, sediment supply
• Classification of sedimentary basins, their tectonic regime and principal depositional systems
• Instrumental methods of sedimentary rocks study, (optical polarisation microscopy, cathodoluminiscence microscopy, SEM and EDX, XRD, isotope geochemistry, marine sedimentology, borehole analysis, seismic profiles and seismic facies, side-scan sonar, etc.)
• Presentation of examples of complex sedimentological studies from literature.