Sedimentary Successions and Their Natural Resources for the Energy Transition

Deepening the concepts of sedimentary basins, types of sediments and sedimentary rocks, where they form, and which are the factors controlling their origin and evolution.
Introducing concepts of stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy to correlate sedimentary successions.
Providing the knowledge about the variations of Earth climate in the geological record and the understanding of the sedimentary and geochemical proxies recording environmental, oceanographic and climate changes of the past.
Introducing the tools to investigate the sedimentary rock geometries and physical properties in sub-surface exploration.
Presenting the different types of fluid resources exploitable from (or storable in) sedimentary successions. Discussing their origin, occurrence, environmental impacts and possible remediations.

At the end of the course the students will have acquired the background knowledge on sedimentary rock successions (sedimentology, stratigraphy, chronostratigraphy) needed to assess: 1) depositional environments and climates of the past; 2) physical properties of sedimentary rocks via direct and indirect methods; 3) their economically valuable resources and their storage potential to mitigate global warming.