Sedimentology II: Biological and Chemical Processes in Lacustrine and Marine Systems

  • You will understand chemistry and biology of the marine carbonate system
  • You will be able to relate carbonate mineralogy with facies and environmental conditions
  • You will be familiar with cool-water and warm-water carbonates
  • You will see carbonate and organic-carbon rich sediments as part of the global carbon cycle
  • You will be able to recognize links between climate and marine carbonate systems (e.g. acidification of oceans and reef growth)
  • You will be able to use geological archives as source of information on global change
  • You will have an overview of marine sedimentation through time
  • carbonates,: chemistry, mineralogy, biology
  • carbonate sedimentation from the shelf to the deep sea
  • carbonate facies
  • cool-water and warm-water carbonates
  • organic-carbon and black shales
  • C-cycle, carbonates, Corg : CO2 sources and sink
  • Carbonates: their geochemical proxies for environmental change: stable isotopes, Mg/Ca, Sr
  • marine sediments thorugh geological time
  • carbonates and evaporites
  • lacustrine carbonates
  • economic aspects of limestone
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