Deep-Water Sediments Exercise

The theoretical knowledge about deep-marine sedimentation acquired during the lecture will be applied in practical exercises. The students will analyse different data sets (seismic data, multibeam bathymetry, sediment cores, well-logs…) and interpret the type of depositional system and its evolution. The course also includes visual description of sediment cores.

-Describe sediment cores and sedimentary facies
-Interpret depositional environments based on sediment architecture and sedimentary facies
-Write a scientific report

The mark of the report will represent 20 % of the total module mark.

project exercise report

1) Pickering, K.T., Hiscott, R.N., 2016. Deep marine systems: processes, deposits, environments, tectonics and sedimentation. Wiley, Chichester, 672 pp.
2) Hsü, K.J. 2004. Physics of sedimentology. Springer, Berlin, 240 pp.

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