Learning Outcomes
Αγγλικά
1. Understand and describe the origin of sedimentary rocks and the sedimentary processes.
2. Understand and describe the texture of the sedimentary rocks and its statistical parameters.
3. Understand and describe the components of the detrital sediments.
4. Understand and describe the petrographic types of the sedimentary rocks. In particular, the detrital, chemical and biogenic rocks.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Origin. Sedimentation processes. Texture. Statistical parameters. Constituents of sediments. Classification. Clastic sediments (Conglomerates-Breccias-Sandstones-Mudrocks-Clays). Diagenesis of sandstones, mudrocks and clays. Flysh-Molasse.
Laterites-bauxites. Volcaniclastic sediments (Tuffs). Chemical and biogenic sediments (Evaposites-Limestones-DolomitesTravertines-Silisic sediments-Phosphorites-Carbonaceous sediments). Sedimentary rocks of Greece. Laboratory exercises.
Keywords
Sediments, sedimentary rocks, weathering, climate, clastic, chemical, biogenic, soil, constituents, texture, diagenesis, clasification
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Ιζηματογενή Πετρώματα, Ανανίας Τσιραμπίδης, Εκδοτικός οίκος Γιαχούδη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 317 σελ., 2008.