ASTRONOMIC CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY
cod. 19250

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Paleontologia e paleoecologia (GEO/01)
Field
Discipline geologiche e paleontologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce the student to a field of stratigraphy which shows an increasing importance, and to its applications in establishing time scale based on astromical dating methods and in reconstructing climate changes.

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Course unit content

<br /><br />Introduction<br />Eccentricity, precession and obliquity cycles and their control on insolation; astronomical solutions<br />Astronomical Ice Age theory of Milankovitch<br />Astronomical Time Scale (examples from Mediterranean Neogene)<br />Orbital forcing on Neogene climate (e.g. sapropels formations in the Mediterranean, global cooling)

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />1)     Schwarzacher W., 1993. Cyclostratigraphy and the Milankovitch Theory. Developments in Sedimentology 52, Elsevier, 225 pp.<br />2)     Hilgen F., Astronomical Solution: from Solar System to Insolation; Astronomical Time Scale: from Cycles to Geological Time. In “Paleoceanography: Theory and Field evidence”, Paleoceanography School held in Naples 25 September-2 October 2003, pp. 2-16.<br />3)     Ruddiman W.F., 2000. Earth’s climate: past and future. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, NY, USA, pp. 465.

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