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OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

SEDIMENTARY MARINE ENVIRONMENTS

  • Fundamentals of clastic sediment production, transport and deposition.
  • Geohazards and sedimentation.
  • Coastal sedimentation: wave- and current-dominated environments (i.e., beaches, barrier islands, deltas, dunes, washover fans, rocky coasts), and tide-dominated environments (i.e., tidal flats and estuaries).
  • Neritic and pelagic sedimentation: sedimentary processes and main controlling factors, modern pelagic sediments and fossil pelagic sediments.
  • Depositional environments in the ocean basins and imprint of climate zonation on marine sediments.
  • Effects of sea level changes on marine sedimentary environments.
  • Basic principles of carbonate sedimentation.
  • Carbonate classification and deposition.
  • Bioconstructed sedimentary systems: concept of reef and bioconstruction, sedimentary processes in reefs and related reef facies, modern reefs, bioconstructions in the sedimentary record (types and zonation).