Siliciclastic Coastal and Shelf Depositional Systems
Lecturers: Dierk Hebbeln, Johann Philipp Klages
This course focuses on siliciclastic sedimentary depositional systems in coasts and shelves. It provides an overview of the processes that control sedimentation in transitional and shallow-marine environments (accommodation space, sediment supply, climate, waves, currents, etc.), and their characteristic lithofacies. Depositional systems at the transition between land and ocean will be presented (e.g. deltas, beaches, estuaries, ice streams/shelves…). Lectures will be combined with hands-on exercises dealing with the identification of depositional environments by using different geoscientific methods (e.g. outcrops, bathymetric/seismic data, sediment cores, well-logs).
-Recognise clastic depositional systems from their lithofacies characteristics and sedimentary architecture
-Identify the processes at the origin of clastic depositional systems
-Understand the factors controlling sedimentation in transitional and shallow-marine environments
50% of the module exam
written exam
1) Readin, H.G. (ed.), 1996. Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy. 3rd Edition. Blackwell Science (Oxford), 688 pp.
2) Emery, D. and Myers, K.J., 1996. Sequence Stratigraphy. Blackwell, 320 p.
3) Reineck, H.-E. and Singh, I.B., 1986. Depositional Sedimentary Environments. 2nd Edition, corrected 2nd Printing. Springer (Berlin), 551 pp.
4) Masselink and Hughes, 2003. Introduction to coastal processes and geomorphology. Arnold, Hodder Headline Group London, 354 pp.
5) Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. & Hogan, K.A. (eds.) 2016. Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 46, http://doi.org/10.1144/M46.
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Basic Data
05-BMG-SE1-1
Study Program
Bachelor Marine Geosciences
Module Name
Sedimentology of Coast and Shelf
Course Type
Lecture, Exercise (L+E)
Second Year of Study
3 CP
2 SWS
Summer Term
Course Language
English
Contact Person
Sedimentary Systems
Dr. Marcello Gugliotta
GEO R
Phone: +49 345 55 26109
marcello.gugliottageo.uni-halle.deSedimentary Systems
Dr. Marcello Gugliotta
GEO R
Phone: +49 345 55 26109
marcello.gugliottageo.uni-halle.deLecturer
Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln
MARUM2 3180
Phone: +49 421 218 - 65650
dhebbelnmarum.deProf. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln
MARUM2 3180
Phone: +49 421 218 - 65650
dhebbelnmarum.deDr. Johann Philipp Klages
AWI 1120
Phone: +49 471 4831 - 1216
Johann.Klagesawi.deDr. Johann Philipp Klages
AWI 1120
Phone: +49 471 4831 - 1216
Johann.Klagesawi.de