ERTH 712 Field Geology of Petroleum Systems
Field Geology of Petroleum Systems focuses on the application and integration of sedimentary, stratigraphic and structural principals to undertake field-based descriptions and interpretations of lithologies and structures, and integrate the results with regional studies. Students record stratigraphic and lateral variations in sedimentary facies geometries in order to facilitate temporally-constrained palaeogeographic reconstructions of depositional facies architecture. Large- and small-scale structural features are considered, in order to understand petroleum systems in three dimensions. The course includes four weeks of field-based data-collection followed by a period of literature reviewing, data integration and report writing based at the Petroleum Institute.
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4-0-4