APPLIED MICRFOPALEONTOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

GE151

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF EARTH AND PLANETS

Disciplinary Sector:

Palaeontology and Palaeoecology

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

RAFFI Isabella

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

No specific cultural background is needed.

Objectives

Providing basic information and methodologies on micropaleontological studies useful for stratigraphy, and for paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, in specific interval of the geological Time.

Contents

The course introduces students in the field of micropaleontological studies applied to research with stratigraphic purposes (biostratigraphy and biochronology, chronostratigraphy) and/or research on paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental studies.

Extended Syllabus

Features of the course are:
 Basic on paleontology of Protists, with special reference to microfossils form biogenic marine calcareous sediments.
 Principles of Biostratigraphy.
 Hints on key microfossil groups, and their role in stratigraphic studies and reconstructions (through biostratigraphy) and in understanding major changes in past global climate;
 Further study on calcareous nannofossils, through the development of a small project to obtain data on samples collected in land sections or from deep sea core sediments.

Recommended Bibliography

Bolli, H.M., Saunders, J.B., Perch-Nielsen, K., (Eds.), Plankton Stratigraphy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Aubry, M.-P., 1984. Handbook of Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton, book 1, Ortholithae (Discoaster). Micropaleontol. Press, Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist., New York, 263 pp.
Aubry, M.-P., 1988. Handbook of Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton, book 2, Ortholithae (Holococcoliths, Ceratoliths, Ortholiths and Other). Micropaleontol. Press, Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist., New York, 279 pp.
Aubry, M.-P., 1989. Handbook of Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton, book 3, Ortholithae (Pentaliths and Other), Heliolithae (Fasciculiths, Sphenoliths and Others). Micropaleontol. Press, Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist., New York, 279 pp.
Aubry, M.-P., 1990. Handbook of Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton, book 4, Heliolithae (Helicoliths, Cribriliths, Lopadoliths and Other). Micropaleontol. Press, Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist., New York, 381 pp.

Teaching Methods

In-class teaching; exercise classes and analysis at the microscope, for developing a small research project.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The examination is subdivided in 3 partial exams (oral) held during the course. The partial exams will be about the topics addressed during the teaching term preceding each test, and the partial exam #3 will deal with the small research project carried out by students.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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