Geology of Sedimentary Basins - MG421P38
Title: Geologie sedimentárních pánví
Czech title: Geologie sedimentárních pánví
Guaranteed by: Institute of Geology and Paleontology (31-420)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 3
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
the course is taught as cyclical
Guarantor: RNDr. David Uličný, CSc.
Teacher(s): RNDr. David Uličný, CSc.
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Annotation -
The course provides the students with a geologist’s perspective on the principal types of sedimentary basins, the geodynamic context of their formation and the main driving mechanisms influencing architecture and lithology of basin fill. Students’ activity in the course includes solving theoretical and practical problem sets in exercises, and presentation and discussion of assigned reading from scientific papers. Students taking this course should be familiar with basics of structural geology, sedimentary and historical geology.
The course is offered in English language only.
Last update: Trnka Rudolf (07.07.2024)
Literature -

P.A. Allen a J.R.Allen (2013): Basin Analysis, Principles and Applications. 3nd ed., Wiley, 549 pp.
G. Einsele (2000): Sedimentary Basins, Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget. 2nd ed., Springer, 792 pp.
selected chapters from:
G. Nichols (2004): Sedimentology and Stratigraphy. Blackwell, 355 pp. Chapters 17 – 24.
M. Leeder (2005): Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins, From Turbulence to Tectonics. Blackwell, 592 pp. Chapters 1 and 8
Slides from lecture / exercise presentations will be available to students as printed handouts and PDF files.

Last update: Trnka Rudolf (07.07.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Credit conditions to be met: Attendance at lectures (min. 60%) and practicals (min. 80%); protocols from practicals; at least one reading or review presentation per semester, as assigned.
Exam has the form of a written test – problem set with a real or schematic dataset (e.g., seismic reflection profile or set of boreholes to be interpreted)

Last update: Trnka Rudolf (07.07.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction: basin-forming processes, basins in the Wilson cycle; exercise: Airy isostasy and lithosphere stretching
2. Rift basins: introduction; exercise - seismic reflection data; case histories by students; analogue model exercise
3. Passive margins and cratonic basins; backstripping - principles of geohistory analysis and exercise
4. Basins in strike-slip regimes; case histories by students; exercise – seismic reflection data
5. Basins at convergent margins: accretionary wedges, forearc basins; case histories by students; analogue model exercise
6. Basins in collisional settings: foreland basins as recorders of orogenic events; case histories by students
7. Intra-plate deformation and basin inversion; Dynamic topography; Landscape Evolution Models (guest presentations)
Note: some of the above topics extend over one week of teaching time and the 2:1 time ratio of lectures / practicals will vary during the semester.

Last update: Trnka Rudolf (07.07.2024)