The course starts to the study of the marine floors and underlying layers with features, sediments, structures and morphodynamics of the ocean basin with particular reference to the seafloor nature, marine and coastal sediment environments and geomorphology, marine geotechnics, acoustics and high resolution seismic stratigraphy. An integrated approach is fundamental to study Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Processes referring to the Hydrographic International Standards.
To provide the students an integrated view of sea floor with the necessary notions and concepts to make them able to correctly analyse and interpret seabed and sub-seabed nature and features with acoustics and high resolution seismic stratigraphy, sediment properties and morphodynamics of the ocean basin. That purpose is aimed at also by the exploitation of an integrated approach between geophysics and geological data to product a seabed mapping.
Lectures and guided exercises
Seafloor nature; Marine and Coastal Geomorphology; Seabed sampling; Marine geotechnics and sediment properties; Acoustics in the sediments; Principles of sedimentology and sedimentary cycle; Acoustic backscatter and seabed mapping; Marine and coastal environments and high resolution seismic stratigraphy.
Davis R.A., Fitzgerald D.M., 2003. Beaches and Coast. Blackwell Pub.
Li M.Z., Sherwood C.R., Hill P.R. (Eds.), 2012. Sediments, Morphology and sedimentary Processes on Continental Shelves. Advances in Technologies, Research and applications. Special Publication n. 44 of the International Associations of Sedimentologists, Wiley Blackwell Ed.
Lurton X., Lamarche G., 2015. Backscatter measurements by seafloor‐mapping sonars Guidelines and Recommendations. A collective report by members of the GeoHab Backscatter Working Group Editors.
Robert C.M., 2009. Global Sedimentology of the Ocean. Developments in Marine Geology, 3, Elsevier Ed.
Teachers’ lecture notes.
Ricevimento: Upon request
NICOLA CORRADI (President)
ROBERTA IVALDI (President)
LAURA CANESI
MARCO FERRARI
October 2018
Oral
Written tests during the course
Recommended the frequency to the exercises
