Learning objectives
<br />Compostional study to polarizing microscope and provenance of some types of sandstone
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
<br />Parent materials and mineral composition of sandstones. Studies in thin-section. Classifications. Tectonics, climate, transporting agent, depositional environment and detrital mineral composition. Recycling of sediments. Diagenetic processes in sandstones. Heavy-mineral analysis and provenance. Study of non opaque-heavy minerals to polarizing microscope
Full programme
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Bibliography
<br />Milner, H.B.-Sedimentary Petrography- v.1, Methods in Sedimentary Petrography; v.2,Principles and Applications;1962, MacMillan Company<br />Blatt,H. -Sedimentary Petrology- 1992, Freeman & Company<br />
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Assessment methods and criteria
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