SCUOLA DI DOTTORATO IN SCIENZE DELLA TERRA PhD SCHOOL IN EARTH SCIENCE

DIPARTIMENTO DI GEOSCIENZE DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

Sequence stratigraphy: principles and applications

Prof. W. Hellan-Hansen University of Bergen
AIM AND CONTENT
The aim is to provide students with a working knowledge of the theoretical framework of sequence stratigraphy in siliciclastic roks and practical experience of the techniques of analysis of sedimentary succession using this approach. Students will learn how to use evidence for changes in base level and sediment supply within a succession as a tool for stratal correlation and for predicting facies distributions in time and space.

DAY 1
SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS Fluvial depositional systems Deltaic, shoreline and shelf depositional systems Deep sea depositional systems SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND What is sequence stratigraphy? Relations to other stratigraphic disciplines Breaks, Walthers law and sequence stratigraphy Exercise 1.1 (Wheeler diagram simple) Exercise 1.2 (Wheeler diagram advanced) Key surfaces and stacking patterns Data Exercise 1.3 (Vertical succession breakdown) BASIC CONCEPTS Regression, transgression Retrogradation, progradation Eustasy, Relative sea-level, accommodation space Trajectories

DAY 2
PARASEQUENCES Parasequences Marine flooding surfaces Parasequence stacking patterns Exercise 2.1 (Parasequence correlation simple) Exercise 2.2 (Parasequence correlation advanced) ACCOMMODATION-SUPPLY CYCLES Systems tracts Ramp systems Shelf-slope-basin systems Accommodation-supply cycles Exercise 2..3 (Sequence correlation) Sequence hierarchy SURFACES AND SYSTEMS TRACTS: REGRESSIVE Normal regression Forced regression Regressive surface of marine erosion Subaerial unconformity/incised valleys Shelf-edge deltas Basin floor systems

SURFACES AND SYSTEMS TRACTS: TRANSGRESSIVE Transgression Ravinement surface Maximum flooding surface THE CONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVE Exercise 2.4 (Brent Group case study)

DAY 3
SEISMIC SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY Underlying concepts Interpretation methodology Reflection terminations Seismic surfaces Seismic facies analysis Reflector geometry Attributes Seismic geomorphology Resolution Exercise 3.1 (Seismic stratigraphic interpretation procedure) Exercise 3.2 (Clinoform exercise)

WHERE: Dipartimento di Geoscienze

Universit di Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6. Padova

WHEN:
8-10 October 2012

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