Basin Analysis

Period: second semester

Course unit contents: 

1) The foundations of sedimentary basins; classification and plate tectonics.
2) Basins due to lithospheric stretching: rifts and passive margins.
3) Basins due to lithospheric flexure: foredeep, foreland, buckling.
4) Strike-slip and pull-apart basins.
5) Subsidence and thermal history.
6) sequence stratigraphy: basic principles, base level changes and development of systems tracts, key bounding surfaces, parasequences.
7) Case-history: sedimentary basins of the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods: 

The course will be based on class teaching, integrated by a number of side activities that will involve students. These activities swill include flipped class rooms and practical activities related with elaboration of data collected in the field at a specific study case. Qualified lecturers, selected among the major experts on subjects of the course, will be invited to hold webinar.

Teaching methods may be adapted to accommodate specific student needs (e.g., fieldwork limitations) provided that these needs are communicated to the instructor through the appropriate institutional procedures. Similarly, individual and flexible learning paths may be arranged for students with certified SEN or SLD, depending on feasibility and in accordance with institutional policies.

Students with specific learning disorders (SLD) or other conditions (including physical health, which may prevent full fruition of the module) are encouraged to contact the Student Service office (“Ufficio Servizi agli studenti - Settore Inclusione”), which can provide further information, support and learning tools.

At the end of the course, students will be invited to complete a survey aimed at collecting feedback and suggestions to support the improvement of future editions.

The use of AI tools to prepare the presentation for flipped classroom is permitted; however, any such use must be explicitly acknowledged in the presentation slides.