Sedimentary Basin Analysis

Recommended Prerequisites

The student must have academic knowledge in the area of Geosciences given by attendance, with approval, in curricular units of the 1st cycle in Geology or of 1st cycles from the Geosciences areas and he/she must understand the Portuguese language.

Teaching Methods

Presentation of themes using the expositive methodology in the classroom and field work; bibliographic research.

Learning Outcomes

The objectives of this curricular unit are: 1) to increase and develop student’s knowledge about sedimentary basins as geodynamic entities, namely the methods for the integrated study and the processes of mantle, lithosphere, oceans, atmosphere and land surface that coupled together to shape the basin geometry and its infilled stratigraphy; 2) to develop capacities in acquisition, systematization, interrelation, treatment, interpretation and presentation of data obtained in the integrated study of sedimentary basins. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Depositional systems and facies models; Integrated stratigraphic analysis; Depositional cycles and sequence stratigraphy; Subsidence, denudation and sedimentary budget; Tectonic types of sedimentary basins and their evolution; Basin analysis; Petroleum systems; Organic matter (typology, methodologies of study and maturation).Case studies (integrated analysis) of peri-Atlantic basins.  

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Manuel Rodrigues Roque Proença Cunha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Allen, P.A., Allen, J.R., 1990 Basin Analysis-Principles and Applications. Blackwell, 451p

Arche, A. (coord), 1992 Sedimentologia. vol. I e II. Conselho Sup. de Investigações científicas

Doyle, P., Bennet, M. (eds.), 1998 Unlocking the stratigraphical record. John Wiley & Sons, 532 p.

Einsele, G., 1992 Sedimentary Basins. Evolution, facies and sediment buget. Springer-Verlag, 628p.

Leeder, M., 1999 Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: from turbulence to tectonics. Blackwell Science Ltd., 592p.

Miall, A.D.,1 997 The geology of stratigraphic sequences. Springer-Verlag, 433p.

Miall, A.D., 2000 Principles of sedimentary basin analysis. Springer-Verlag, 490p.

Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds). The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews, vols 3 and 4.

Srivastava, B. K. et al. (eds.) 1998 Dynamics and methods of study of sedimentary basins. Éd.Technip, 400p.