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TGB4165

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

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Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Course start Spring 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Oral exam and report

About

About the course

Course content

Transport and deposition of sediments. Sedimentary textures and structures. Depositional environments and facies. Stratigraphy and stratigraphical principles. Practicals consist of the microscopy of sedimentary rocks, interpretation of sedimentary structures, description and interpretation of sedimentary facies in cores, interpretation of graphic sedimentary logs.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The student should have knowledge about:

  • Origin and transport of sedimentary materials.
  • Composition, classification, and diagenesis of sedimentary rocks.
  • Facies and depositional environments.
  • Stratigraphical principles and methods.

Skills: The student should be able to:

  • Classify sedimentary rocks from outcrops, hand specimens and thin sections.
  • Recognise and interpret sedimentary structures.
  • Construct and interpret graphical sedimentology logs, both from cores and outcrop.
  • Use lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data for correlation purposes.

General skills: The student will gain experience with writing a scientific report of field observations.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and compulsory practicals. Compulsory field course. Field work may be scheduled for a weekend.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises, field course

Further on evaluation

The grade in the course is based on an oral exam (70%) and a field course report (30%). In order to be eligible to receive a grade in the course, both assessments must receive a passing score. Students who have passed the course and would like to try to improve their grade will only re-take the final exam, not the report. Students who have failed the course but passed the report will only re-take the final exam.

Course materials

To be announced at the start of the semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
SIG0525 7.5 sp
MNGGEOL106 7.5 sp Autumn 2008
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Geology
  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Geoscience

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Oral exam and report
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Spring 2025

Report
Weighting 30/100 Exam system Inspera Assessment
Oral exam
Weighting 70/100 Examination aids Code D Date 2025-06-06 Time 09:00 Duration 1 hours

Re-sit examination - Summer 2025

Oral exam
Weighting 70/100 Examination aids Code D Duration 1 hours