Exploration Sedimentology

Course content

Sedimentary rocks and sediments are host for oil/gas and mineral deposits through the earth evolution. Field and laboratory investigations of the sedimentary rocks will enable the students to understand the formation of source and reservoir rocks. Use of chemical signals in sedimentary rocks (stable isotopes and element analysis), cyclic and event sedimentation will help to correlate and understand the burial and diagenetic evolution for the maturation of source rocks. Provenance analysis, compaction and decompaction of sedimentary rocks will review the reservoir quality. Applications of integrated sedimentological methods in exploration of hydrocarbon and ore deposits will be the main focus both in the field and laboratories.