Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- Development of Concepts in Sedimentology; The context of sedimentology; Weathering;
erosion; transportation; Sedimentation in the backdrop of the interaction of plate tectonics
and hydrological cycle; Soil formation and sediment production; regolith; chemical index
of alteration.
- Textural Properties of Sediments and Sedimentary Rock; Grain Size and scale; grain size
distributions; Porosity and permeability; Grain orientation and fabric.
- Fluid Flow and Sediment Transport: Fluid gravity flows – Classification; velocity
distribution in turbulent flows; Sediment transport under unidirectional flows;
Hjulstrom’s diagram; Shield’s criterion; Bedforms and structures under unidirectional
flow – Flow regime concept; bedform stability diagrams.
- Primary structures and their directional significance; biogenic sedimentary structures -
Stromatolites and Ichnofossils; Penecontemporaneous Deformation Structures (PCD).
- Depositional Sedimentary Environments; Classification; methods and data integration for
environmental reconstruction - vertical facies associations.
- Facies: Walther’s Law of correlation of sedimentary facies; migration of facies tracts;
Facies models and interpretation of depositional environments.
- Terrigenous Clastic Sediments; Sediment connectivity and transport systems;
compositional versus textural maturity of sediments; Sedimentology of mudstones.
- Carbonate Rocks; Importance of limestone; carbonate continuum and carbonate minerals;
carbonate geochemistry; controls on carbonate deposition; Carbonate sediment factories;
bio- and organo-mineralisation; warm and cool water carbonates; pelagic carbonates;
reefs and build-ups; Carbonate diagenesis.
- Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks; Chert and siliceous sediment; phosphates; and organic-rich
sediments; Chemical and non-epiclastic sedimentary rocks – Iron-rich sedimentary rocks
and evaporates; Volcanoclastic sedimentary rocks – fragmentation; eruption column
characteristics non-genetic classification of pyroclastic rocks.
- Siliciclastic Diagenesis: Compaction and cementation; Authigenesis; recrystallization and
replacement; Diagenesis and porosity.
- Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins; Basin classification – intraplate (pre- and post- rift);
Divergent and convergent – margin basins; collision and post – collision basins; strike–
slip basins; mechanisms of basin formation; the uniform stretching model.
- Concepts in Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy; Index fossils; FAD/LAD; bio
stratigraphic zonation and correlation; time significance of biostratigraphic events;
Geophysical and chemostratigraphic correlation - well logging; seismic stratigraphy;
chemostratigraphy; Magnetostratigraphy and Geochronology: Principles of
magnetostratigraphy and development of GPTS (Global Polarity Time Scale);
Geochronological techniques applied to the Quaternary and pre- Quaternary record.
- Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 3rd edition, Boggs (2000)
- D. R. Prothero, F. L. Schwab, Sedimentary geology: an introduction to sedimentary rocks
and stratigraphy, London: W. H. Freeman, 2004
- G. Nichols, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
