Semester: | 5th |
Course Type: | Mandatory |
Course Code: | Y5202 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 3 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 2 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 14 |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 5 |
Teaching Units: | 4 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | Υ2205Y3205Y4206 |
This course offers the basic knowledge for Stratigraphy. It focuses on the study of stratified rocks and its principles mainly work out in sedimentary rocks. Stratigraphy deals with the overall relations of the stratified rocks, their spatial and temporal development and the geologic history they record. Strata host the evolution of life and depict in detail the evolution of earth stretching back over 4 billion years. The quest for improved time control, the estimation of rates of geological and paleoenvironmental processes and the placement of events in Earth history into chronological order is central to Earth Sciences. Modern stratigraphic methods are now able to provide insights into past geological events and processes on time scales with accuracy and precision, and have added much to our understanding of global structural and climatic processes. The universal adoption of Global Stratigraphic Sections and Points (GSSPs) has become much more precise with the incorporation of several new methods for evaluating deep time.
Definition of Stratigraphy, its role and importance on Earth-sciences; Traditional and modern stratigraphic methods; Lithostratigraphy and facies relationships; Biostratigraphy; Chronostratigraphy; Geochronology; Isotopic Stratigraphy; Astrochronology; Chemostratigraphy and paleoclimatic stratigraphic indices; Sequence Stratigraphy and sea level change; transgressions, eustatism; Magnetotratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphy, sedimentary basins; Depositional environments, Paleogeography; Historic Geology, Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic; Stratigraphic outcrops of various geological time periods in Greece.