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: Lectures. During the field-trip, the students will collect and discuss data from different kind of sedimentary deposits.