30 November - 2 December 2016
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse
Università di Napoli Federico II
Prof. Mariano Parente
12 lecture hours – 3 CFU
The lessons will be held in Room AD2, via Mezzocannone 8 (IV piano)
1) wednesday 30 November, 13:30-15:30
2) wednesday 30 November, 15:30-17:30
3) thursday 1 December, 10:30-12:30
4) thursday 1 December, 13:30-15:30
5) friday 2 December, 10:30-12:30
6) friday 2 December, 13:30-15:30
Prerequisites: Very basic knowledge of carbonate sedimentology, paleontology, geochemistry.
Short Program of the Course:
Course introduction: why isotope stratigraphy
1. Strontium isotope stratigraphy
- Principles, methods and applications
- The problem of sample selection and diagenetic screening (with an excercise of data evaluation)
- Discussion of case histories: critical evaluation of papers applying strontium isotope stratigraphy to shallow-water carbonates
2. Carbon isotope stratigraphy
- Principle, methods and applications
- Problems and limitations in the application of carbon isotope stratigraphy to shallow-water carbonates (with an excercise of data evaluation)
- Discussion of case histories: critical evaluation of papers applying carbon isotope stratigraphy to shallow-water carbonates
Suggested introductory readings:
McArthur, J. M., Howarth, R. J., & Shields, G. A. (2012). Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy. In The Geologic Time Scale (pp. 127–144). Elsevier. http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59425-9.00007-X Weissert, H., Joachimski, M., & Sarnthein, M. (2008). Chemostratigraphy. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 42(3), 145–179. http://doi.org/10.1127/0078-0421/2008/0042-0145