Sciences and Teaching of Natural Systems

MARCO BRANDANO
MARCO BRANDANO

Developing competences and expected learning outcomes

Educational goals: Students will be able to analyze and use carbonate sequences for the reconstructions of environmental, oceanographic and climatic conditions starting first from outcrop analysis (measurements of stratigraphic sections, photos and facies mapping) and subsequently in the laboratory (microfacies analysis, analysis quantitative, correlation between stratigraphic sections, diagenetic analysis and isotope analysis).

Learning outcomes: Successful students will be able to select and select the most effective method of investigation for the study of carbonate sequences, and propose a reconstruction of environmental, oceanographic and climatic evolution.

Students who pass the course are able to use the main tools for integrated stratigraphic analysis aimed at paleoclimatic reconstructions and carbon cycle perturbations.

Knowledge deriving from the Geology, Geology 1 and Geochemistry courses of the three-year degree courses in Geological Sciences and Natural Sciences
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Components of carbonate rocks
Diagenesis and porosity of carbonate rocks
Cathodoluminescence, use of stable isotopes and trace elements for diagenesis
Isotopic Stratigraphy: stable isotopes, Sr and Nd isotopes
Stratigraphic correlation
The main perturbations of the carbon cycle and climate changes From the Permo-Triassic to the Quaternary
Carbonate platforms and carbon cycles
Elements of cyclostratigraphy

Notes
PPt of the lessons
Wright and Tucker, Carbonate Sedimentology, 1990, Blackwell
Flugel, Microfacies of carbonate rocks, 2004, Springer

Lectures and exercises in classroom
Lectures and exercises in the field

in classroom and in the laboratory

Exercise assigned one week before the exam, discussion of the exercise and oral exam on the program topics

Use of stable isotope in carbonate systems
Main paleoclimatic event during the Mesozoic

• Classroom lectures on Monday, Thursday1 CFU introduction and components1 CFU diagenesis and isotope stratigraphy1,5 CFU C-cycle perturbations, stratigaphic correlations, cyclostratigraphy2,5 Field activity