NGEA09018U Sedimentary Basins - Evolution, Environments and Resources (1)

Knowledge:

• Types of sedimentary basins set in a plate-tectonic framework
• explorational aspects for resources, such as hydrocarbons and groundwater, in sedimentary basins
• seismic profiles, well logs and outcrop data from selected basins.

Skills:

• describe the types of sedimentary basins in a plate-tectonic framework, and to proceed from there in a series of steps to progressively smaller scale and higher degrees of detail
• describe the explorational aspects for hydrocarbons and groundwater
• apply seismic profiles, well logs and outcrop data from selected basins
• perform an independent analysis and synthesis of a sedimentary basin through time based on all available seismic, borehole and outcrop data and by applying a wide spectrum of tectonic, stratigraphic and sedimentological methods within a plate tectonic framework
• make a professional-style oral presentation and write a short, concise report on a selected subject which can be directly used by a wide range of professionals.

Competences:

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

• classify sedimentary basins within a plate tectonic framework
• describe and interpret the basin fill in a stratigraphic-tectonic framework
• explain the main elements in the analysis of the sedimentary source areas, including geology, provenance, sediment flux and drainage patterns
• identify, describe and interprete major depositional systems by correlation of outcrops, well logs and seismic profiles using seismic and sequence stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology
• identify and explain potential occurrences of economically important resources, notably hydrocarbons in the investigated basins
• undertake a synthesis of the formation, stratigraphical development and resources of a basin based on all available data
• give an oral presentation of this synthesis and present it in a short, concise report